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    Michael Hiltzik: A new book traces the challenges and opportunities for a growing Korean American community

    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Nov 23, 2018 6 minutes

    "For the Korean American community, in recent years things have started to become better," Hyepin Im told me from her Wilshire Boulevard office in Koreatown. "But we still have a ways to go."

    Im, whose career in community service was inspired by the experience of living through the 1992 Los Angeles riots, is describing the long, complicated journey for the Korean American community from the outsidership of first-generation immigrants to acceptance.

    Im is one of the scores of advocates, entrepreneurs and established business leaders who populate a new book about the history and challenges of one of Southern California's most vibrant ethnic communities. "The Korean-American Dream," published last month by the University of Nevada Press, is the latest work by James Flanigan, who was the Los Angeles Times' business columnist for 20 years of his more than half-century career as a business journalist.

    Flanigan came to this topic naturally. As followers of his writings in The Times for 20 years will recognize, he always showed a deep interest

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