Howard County Home To New Koreatown, One Of The First In The Country

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (WJZ) — With the chopped of the ribbon, the program to grow diverseness successful Maryland has been realized. Koreatown has officially made it to our authorities making it 1 of the precise fewer successful the country.

Gov. Larry Hogan, First Lady and Honorary Chair Yumi Hogan, and Lee Soo-hyuck, South Korean ambassador to the U.S, were determination successful Ellicott City to spot it each Saturday.

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“Maryland is precise arrogant of the peculiar enslaved we person with Korea and we’ve been moving precise hard to marque that enslaved adjacent stronger,” Gov. Hogan said.

Just successful the past year, Yumi Hogan signed an statement for economical maturation and improvement betwixt the authorities of Maryland and the Republic of Korea. Saturday was the latest measurement successful their relationship.

“This country is present location to a assemblage of thousands of Korean Americans whose power stretches crossed the state,” Lee said.

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This accepted Korean operation has been built to correspond the caller Koreatown. Even a section tae kwon bash squad showed disconnected their skills arsenic portion of the opening ceremony.

An country Gov. Hogan erstwhile called “Korean Way” successful 2016 is location to thousands of Korean-Americans. The committedness is increasing rapidly, which is simply a triumph for diverseness on Route 40 successful Howard County.

Last November, Yumi Hogan was awarded the Order of Civil Merit of the Republic of Korea. It is the highest civilian grant – for her committedness to serving the Korean-American Community.

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