Baltimore’s once-thriving “Koreatown” has been rapidly fading from view in recent years, due to Korean owned businesses closing and accelerated redevelopment in the neighborhood. With these changes, the Korean Immigrant history of this neighborhood faces extinction.

한때 번성했던 볼티모어의 "코리아타운"은 최근 몇 년 동안 한국인 소유 사업체들이 문을 닫고 지역 재개발이 가속화되면서 빠르게 사라지고 있습니다. 이러한 변화로 인해 이 지역에 깃든 한국 이민자들의 역사가 사라질 위기에 처해 있습니다.

It would be the first neighborhood in Baltimore that fully recognizes the Korean immigrant community and its historical and cultural significance in Baltimore. 

This recognition will also positively impact Baltimore’s and outside of Baltimore’s current and future greater AAPI community to show that we are included in Baltimore’s rich cultural history.

We hope that with this preservation and achieving historic designation will become a catalyst to bring people to the neighborhood to create a thriving future.

We want to ensure that our mission is able to honor the history of the Korean community in “Koreatown.” However, we are conscientious that the Station North, Charles North and the Greenmount West area has and always has been home to diverse community groups throughout the years.

Understanding this history of this neighborhood and the complex relationships between cultural groups, has helped us determine how we can both conserve the Korean significance of Koreatown as it undergoes change, and preserve Korean immigrant histories and Baltimore’s AAPI culture without marginalizing other groups that live in this community.