Koreatown
A Koreatown (Korean: 코리아타운), also known as a Little Korea or Little Seoul, is a Korean-dominated ethnic enclave within a city or metropolitan area outside the Korean Peninsula.
A Koreatown (Korean: 코리아타운), also known as a Little Korea or Little Seoul, is a Korean-dominated ethnic enclave within a city or metropolitan area outside the Korean Peninsula.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Koreatown
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01University of Southern California
Private university in Los Angeles, California, United States
4.3 km · Wikipedia - 02
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- 09Los Angeles City Hall
1928 building housing the government of the city of Los Angeles, California
5.4 km · Wikipedia - 10
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Koreatown
- Airports
- Los Angeles (LAX), 16 km · Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope (BUR), 17 km · Long Beach (LGB), 30 km
- Santa Ana → Koreatown3651 km · quickest by air, 13h 21m · $800–1,210
- Ontario → Koreatown60 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · $5–7
- San Bernardino → Koreatown93 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · $8–11
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Koreatown
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Koreatown. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAir taxi and air charter companies including Los Angeles Private Jets can access private aircraft at any of L.A.'s private aviation airports, as well as planes in your area for flights to Los Angeles.
- Get inIf you're thinking of using Metrolink to day trip on the weekend, you'll want to get the $10 weekend day pass, which is good for unlimited travel on Metrolink (and connecting transit) on either Saturday or Sunday.
- Get inLong Beach also has party boats for large groups such as the Majorca and Ibizza by OnBoat, https://onboat.co/product/long-beach-yacht-charter-115-feet-party-yacht-majorca/ San Pedro has a cruise ship terminal that all of the major cruise ship lines (except Carnival) sail from.
From Wikivoyage: Los Angeles, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Koreatown – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Koreatown
Koreatown is 5 km from Los Angeles, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Hollywoodneighborhood in Los Angeles, California, United States5.1 km
- Skid Rowneighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA5.5 km
- Chinatownneighborhood in Los Angeles, California, United States5.8 km
- Little Tokyoneighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA5.7 km
- Silver Lakeneighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States5.1 km
- Little Armenianeighborhood in Los Angeles, California, United States of America4.5 km