Abstract
In the aftermath of the Los Angeles civil unrest of 1992, one of the few areas of agreement within the Korean American community was that Korean Americans do not live on a ethnic island. No matter how much Korean Americans built up the walls of ethnic insularity, the civil unrest unequivocally asserted that the lives of Korean Americans are enmeshed with lives of others and that Korean Americans ignore this at their own peril. The rage of African Americans in South Central after the Rodney King verdict, the crushing poverty of Central Americans in Pico Union, the brutality and the indifference of the Los Angeles Police Department, and the cluelessness of elected politicians all mattered in what happened to Korean Americans before, during, and after the civil unrest.
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