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Oct 22, 2024 | 
koreadailyus.com | Suah Jang |Hoonsik Woo
Grandmaster Christopher Yoo, 17, a Korean-American who was hailed as a chess prodigy, has been expelled from the 2024 U.S. Chess Championship for assault. He has also been banned from the St. Louis Chess Club. The incident occurred after Yoo lost to Fabiano Caruana in the fifth round of the championship in St. Louis on October 16. After the game, Yoo allegedly crumpled the score sheet, ran off the hall, and struck a videographer from the back.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
koreadailyus.com | Suah Jang |Hoonsik Woo
A Korean-American collector has raised controversy over the acquisition path of several works of Chester Chang’s donation to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), including Lee Jung-seob’s ‘Children Playing on a Pole’. The collector, who says he traded works with Chang, alleges that Chang threatened him and took them from him more than 20 years ago.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
koreadailyus.com | Suah Jang
A new playground has opened near 4th Street and Shatto Place in LA’s Koreatown. On October 12, LA City Councilmember Heather Hutt (District 10) hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Shatto Recreation Center to unveil the newly installed play area. According to the District 10 office, the playground features state-of-the-art facilities designed to encourage physical activity for children of all ages.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
koreadailyus.com | Suah Jang |Hoonsik Woo
The Koreatown Senior and Community Center is launching a research project on Korean Americans’ stomach cancer in collaboration with USC. On October 11, the Senior Center announced at a press conference that it will conduct a joint research project with USC until June 2026 on the topic of “Smoking and Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Stomach Cancer Risk in the Korean American Community”.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
koreadailyus.com | Suah Jang |Hoonsik Woo
Hopes and cheers for the next 50 years of the Korea Daily took to the skies. On October 10, hundreds of paper airplanes filled with hope flew over the ballroom at the Audrey Irmas Pavilion in Los Angeles Koreatown during the Korea Daily’s 50th-anniversary event. The 250 attendees participated in a performance where they each wrote a message of encouragement on a paper airplane and sent it flying.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
koreadailyus.com | Suah Jang |Youngnam Kim
A new report from the Pew Research Center, released on October 9, reveals that Korean immigrants primarily choose to move to the U.S. for economic opportunities and time with family. The study also shows that most Korean immigrants would still prefer living in the U.S. over South Korea if given the choice again. The report, which summarizes data on Asian immigrants in the U.S., found that a majority view their lives in America positively.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
koreadailyus.com | Suah Jang |Hoonsik Woo
Los Angeles County is officially permitting people to operate small-scale restaurants out of their homes. This means that so-called “mini-restaurants” can now be operated in homes as long as the county government approves them. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced the Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operations (MEHKO) program on October 7 and began accepting permit applications.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
koreadailyus.com | Suah Jang |Youngnam Kim
A 71-year-old man was brutally attacked in broad daylight in Irvine, a city with a significant Korean-American population. According to NBC News, the incident occurred on October 1 near Jamboree and Portola Parkway. Footage from a nearby home’s CCTV shows the elderly man being suddenly assaulted by a younger man, causing him to collapse onto the road. The attacker continued to strike the victim as he lay on the ground, but the elderly man resisted forcefully.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
koreadailyus.com | Suah Jang |Hoonsik Woo
A young Korean-American man won his second straight Long Beach Marathon title on Saturday at the 40th annual event. A 33-year-old Korean American from Los Angeles, Jason Yang, won the men’s race with a time of 2 hours, 27 minutes, and 27 seconds, according to the LA Daily News. Yang won the Long Beach Marathon title for the second year in a row, repeating his victory from last year. Last year, he won with a time of 2 hours, 27 minutes, 04 seconds.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
koreadailyus.com | Suah Jang |Hoonsik Woo
A Korean-American-owned smartphone repair shop in downtown Los Angeles has been robbed. Around 3:40 a.m. on October 3, a burglar broke into an electronics repair shop, FIXSTORY, located near Flower and 8th Streets, and stole about $1,000 worth of electronics before fleeing. The store, which specializes in repairing smartphones, tablets, and other electronic devices, only first opened in June.
