Koreans, Hispanics Work for Harmony

Koreans, Hispanics Work for Harmony - washingtonpost.com

Korean businesses, which tend to be labor intensive and have low margins, will continue to need Hispanic immigrants to grow, said Dae Young Kim, a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland at College Park. He added that Korean business owners often feel that Hispanics "also have a sort of immigrant drive that would make them hard workers."

Thomas Yoon said that H Mart came to similar realizations. "We woke up and realized we couldn't run our stores without them. We had to start treating them for what they were -- important employees," Yoon said.

Sigh. So much to say there, so sad. Sometimes I wonder if even generational spans can traverse the space between Koreans and globalized reality. Sigh.