'There are over 40,000 Koreans within the state,' says Aurora outreach coordinator Moosin Song, with many of them living in Colorado's third largest city.
Moosin Song, who's leading the effort for a South Korean consulate in Aurora, holds out a South Korean flag at the Aurora Municipal Center.
If you leave the numbers out and just look at Aurora itself — Colorado's third-largest city — it's easy to see the strong Korean presence in the state. The area is rich with Korean-owned businesses, Korean churches and young Korean-Americans in public schools.Aurora is attractive to immigrants because of its affordable housing, good schools and availability of work in a metro area, she adds.
Although the South Korean consul general does travel out to Colorado two to three times a year, seeking services in California can seem out of reach for many foreign-born Koreans here. "We need to have a consulate office — not just for the convenience of people, but if we have a consulate office here, they could work more closely with the Korean government," Song says."If there's a Korean government's presence, they will get more support, and they'll feel more supported."
A large part of that diversity is the"tight-knit" Korean community, which it also one of the largest and most visible foreign-born groups in the area, Song says. The next-largest group is from El Salvador. Aurora"is working really closely with the [South] Korean government and the Korean community" to bring a consulate to fruition, Song says. Just before the pandemic, she met with the South Korean ambassador to the U.S. and the American ambassador to South Korea, as well as with previous ambassadors from both sides,"which doesn't happen that often."
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