Hi Duk Lee, a Korean business owner in Los Angeles and one of the pioneers of the city’s Koreatown, has died. He was 79. - NBCAsianAmerica
“I’ve lost much money, but I don’t regret what I’ve done since it all happened in Koreatown. My failures became fertilizer to bloom flowers."March 21, 2019, 8:28 PM GMTHi Duk Lee, a Korean business owner in Los Angeles and one of the pioneers of the city’s Koreatown, has died, NBC News has confirmedLee's daughter, Helen Lee, said he died March 7, about six months after a cancer diagnosis.
Lee was born in South Korea in 1939 and moved to what was then West Germany in 1966 due to a lack of economic opportunity at home, heHe came to the United States in 1968, eventually inviting a Korean woman, Kil Ja, he had met in Germany to join him. The pair married. She worked as a nurse, and he worked for several years at a can manufacturing company and as a welder.
, referring to the Korean-American community."I planned to make Koreatown. Chinese people have Chinatowns everywhere: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Montebello. But there's no Koreatown." . The California state Department of Transportation also installed a Koreatown exit sign on the Santa Monica Freeway.Lee sold his property in the neighborhood by 1982, pressured by high interest rates and tenants who had fallen behind on rent. He then explored importing and exporting, spending time in China and South Africa, while still living in Los Angeles. He had a particular interest in exploring developing areas that he knew would boom, Helen Lee recalled.
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