Koreatown, Toronto

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Street signs in Korea Town.

A bowl of Korean pork-bone soup, a popular dish in Toronto's Koreatown.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada's Korean Business Area, known more generally as Koreatown (or Korea Town), is centred along Bloor Street between Christie and Bathurst Streets. Also known as "Little Korea", Koreatown came into prominence during the summer of 2002 as the Korean team surprised everyone by playing into the semi-final round in the 2002 World Cup tournament. Traffic came to a halt on Bloor Street West as exuberant crowds celebrated the accomplishments of their favourite team.

The adoption of a more liberal immigration policy by the Canadian government in 1967 led to an influx of Korean immigrants, many of whom settled in the Toronto area. Indeed, Toronto has the largest single concentration of Koreans in Canada with almost 50,000 living in the city, according to the 2001 Census. Many of them settled in the Bloor and Bathurst area, and before long, a small Korean business neighbourhood emerged along Bloor Street, centred around the intersection of Bloor and Manning Avenue. Restaurants, bakeries, gift shops, grocery stores, and travel agencies began to open up, most of which catered to the Korean-Canadian community.

Prior to the influx of Korean immigrants in the 1980s, the section of Bloor West of Bathurst was heavily populated by people from Central and South America, and the area still has a strong Latin influence today.

Koreatown, North York

Since the early 1990's, a Koreatown has also emerged in North York along Yonge Street between Sheppard Avenue and just north of Steeles Avenue. The area composes of North York, Ontario (Willowdale, Toronto and Newtonbrook) and Thornhill, Ontario (Vaughan, Ontario and Markham, Ontario).

The new Koreatown comprises retail stores and family restaurants catering to younger Koreans and those living in the north part of the City of Toronto and York Region. A larger proportion of this neighbourhood are recent immigrants or visa students from South Korea.

Retail composition

Hair salons
Cosmetic retailers
Family styled restaurants
Sushi bars
Noraebang (Karaoke) bars
Clothing retailers
Convenience stores
Internet cafes

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Bloor Street is a major east-west commercial thoroughfare in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Bloor Street runs from the Don Valley Parkway (DVP) in Toronto's east-end into the west-end and into Mississauga where it ends at Central Parkway.
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Bathurst Street is a north-south thoroughfare in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and into York Region. The street was named for Lord Henry Bathurst (1762–1834), the British Secretary of State for War and the Colonies from 1812 to 1827.
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Yonge Street (pronounced "young") is a major arterial street in Toronto, and its northern suburbs. It was formerly listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest street in the world,^[1] and is a national historic site.
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Sheppard Avenue is an east-west principal arterial road in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Sheppard is named for Joseph Shepard I, who acquired 400 acres (1.6 km²) of land at the northwest corner of Sheppard and Yonge Street.
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Steeles Avenue is an east-west thoroughfare that forms the northern city limit of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Willowdale is an established community in the former City of North York, now part of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was originally called "Lansing". North York was merged with five other municipalities and a regional government to form the new "City of Toronto" in 1998.
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Newtonbrook is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In the nineteenth century, it was a separate municipality. It is located in the area around Yonge Street and Finch Avenue in the former City of North York between the east and west branches of the Don River.
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Thornhill (2006 population 106,394) is an upscale community in Ontario, Canada, directly north of Toronto. It is considered the most affluent of Toronto suburbs. It straddles two municipalities, the city of Vaughan having the portion west of Yonge Street and the town of Markham
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Koreatown, or K-town as it is colloquially known, is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, that is generally bordered by 31st and 36th Streets and Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenues.
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Little Seoul is on Garden Grove Boulevard between Brookhurst Street and Beach Boulevard in the Orange County, California city of Garden Grove. Although the Koreatown neighborhood in Los Angeles is larger and better known, Orange County’s own Korean enclave hosts over 1,000
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Koreatown is a community of the Wilshire Center district in the Mid-Wilshire area of the City of Los Angeles, California.

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While Koreatown's boundaries are not formally set, it occupies much of the area of the Wilshire Center, and is found between Arlington
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Little Saigon. While the ageing population shrinks however, so too do the revenues of businesses in the district; while the majority of the grocery stores and shops still survive, most of the once-famed restaurants on Dundas have closed since the turn of the century.
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Seaton Village is a primarily residential neighbourhood in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is named after John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada from 1828 to 1836.
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Portugal Village is a colourful inner city neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded by Bathurst Street, Dundas, and Queen Street West, and by Trinity Bellwoods Park, around which the community is centred.
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The Annex is a neighbourhood in downtown Toronto. It is generally considered to be bounded by Bathurst Street to the West, Avenue Road to the east, Dupont St. to the North, and Bloor Street to the South.
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Little Italy, sometimes referred to as College Street West or College and Clinton, is one of the numerous Italian Canadian neighbourhoods in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and is the best known.
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