LOS ANGELES : Korean Center Changes Name to Reflect Wider Role
The Korean Youth Center, the nation’s biggest Korean-American service organization, celebrated its 17th birthday Friday by renaming itself the Korean Youth and Community Center at a fund-raiser attended by more than 600 people at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
“The name change is a more accurate reflection of the work we have been doing and will lay the foundation for more expansion where the community needs are the greatest,” said Bong-Hwan Kim, executive director of the agency that annually serves 5,000 people of Korean ancestry. “In the past four years we’ve been providing services to a broader constituency than youths.
The KYCC is developing low-income housing for Korean-American families.
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