Wilshire Center has a large concentration of Korean-owned businesses and an ethnically and economically diverse residential population.

Koreans denied jobs in Japanese companies can turn to Korean-owned businesses.

On Broadway, near 37th Avenue, there is a small strip of Korean-owned businesses.

According to the Boston Globe, over 1,000 Korean-owned businesses are in Annandale.

This area in the northwest part of the city is characterized by a large number of Korean-owned businesses serving the city's sizable Korean American community.

Roughly 150 Korean-owned businesses are located in the neighborhood, including a shopping center and Korean American community centers.

By 2007 there were estimated to be 13,000 Korean residents and 200 Korean-owned businesses in various cities in Cebu.

According to the Korean American Small Business Service Center in Flushing, only half of all Korean-owned businesses break even.

Other types of Korean-owned businesses in the area, including several greengrocers, were untouched in the disturbances, Mr. Ford said.

This is the first year of a singing competition open to non-Koreans; many of the participants are Latinos who work in Korean-owned businesses.