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A large number of Korean Americans do not have health insurance<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Korean American Community |url=http://www.koreanamericanhealthconference.com/the-korean-american-community.html|access-date=2020-11-12 |website=Korean American Health Conference|language=en|archive-date=2020-10-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024165533/https://www.koreanamericanhealthconference.com/the-korean-american-community.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-03-24 |title=Health Problems of Korean Americans: Access to Health Care |url=https://geriatrics.stanford.edu/ethnomed/korean/patterns/access.html|access-date=2020-11-12|website=Geriatrics|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123114743/https://geriatrics.stanford.edu/ethnomed/korean/patterns/access.html|url-status=live}}</ref> due to language access barriers.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Antonio-Vila|first=Lydia|date=April 17, 2020|title=NAKASEC: Highlighting discrepancies in language access in the Asian American community|work=Fairfax County Times|url=http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fairfax_county/nakasec-highlighting-discrepancies-in-language-access-in-the-asian-american-community/article_1a831186-8045-11ea-9dd3-9378d333e769.html|access-date=November 11, 2020|archive-date=May 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200515133626/http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fairfax_county/nakasec-highlighting-discrepancies-in-language-access-in-the-asian-american-community/article_1a831186-8045-11ea-9dd3-9378d333e769.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Bharath|first=Deepa |date=November 14, 2019|title=Undocumented, uninsured Korean Americans find safe havens in nonprofit clinics |work=The Orange County Register |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2019/11/14/undocumented-uninsured-korean-americans-find-safe-havens-in-nonprofit-clinics/|access-date=November 11, 2020 |archive-date=October 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021051436/https://www.ocregister.com/2019/11/14/undocumented-uninsured-korean-americans-find-safe-havens-in-nonprofit-clinics/|url-status=live}}</ref> Furthermore, older Korean Americans, who are at significant risk of developing mental health conditions, are less likely to access mental health services even when exhibiting symptoms. This is due to stigma and cultural misconceptions regarding mental health conditions.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Fewer older Korean Americans utilize mental health services |work=University of Hawaiʻi News |url=https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2020/10/20/korean-americans-mental-health/|access-date=2020-11-12 |language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201105045322/https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2020/10/20/korean-americans-mental-health/|archive-date=2020-11-05 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sohn|first=Linda|date=2010|title=Health and health care of Korean American Older Adults |url=https://geriatrics.stanford.edu/ethnomed/korean.html |journal=ECampus-Geriatrics|via=Stanford School of Medicine |access-date=2020-11-12 |archive-date=2020-10-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027064410/https://geriatrics.stanford.edu/ethnomed/korean.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Los Angeles has emerged as a major center of the Korean American community. The city has undergone a rapid transition in the 1990s, duringmarked which there wasby an influx of Koreans and investment by Korean banks and corportations.<ref>{{cite book |first1=H. C. |last1=Laux |first2=G. |last2=Theme |chapter=Koreans in Greater Los Angeles: socioeconomic polarization, ethnic attachment, and residential patterns |editor-first=W. |editor-last=Li |title=From urban enclave to ethnic suburb: New Asian communities in Pacific Rim countries |year=2006 |isbn=0-8248-2911-5 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/fromurbanenclave00weil/page/95 95–118] |location=Honolulu |publisher=U of Hawaii Press |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/fromurbanenclave00weil/page/95}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Youngmin Lee |author2=Kyonghwan Park |title=Negotiating hybridity: transnational reconstruction of migrant subjectivity in Koreatown, Los Angeles |journal=Journal of Cultural Geography |year=2008 |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=245–262 |doi=10.1080/08873630802433822 |s2cid=145462855}}</ref> Many entrepreneurs opened small businesses, and were hard hit by <ref>{{cite book |last1=Abelmann |first1=Nancy |last2=Lie |first2=John |title=Blue dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles riots |year=1997 |location=Cambridge |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=0-674-07705-9 |pages=}}{{pn|date=November 2023}}</ref> More recently, L.A.'s Koreatown has been perceived to have experienced declining political power secondary to re-districting,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0801-koreatown-lawsuit-20120801,0,7093984.story|title=Koreatown residents sue L.A. over redistricting|author=David Zahniser|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=2012-08-01|access-date=2012-08-27 |url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-09-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120923005720/http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0801-koreatown-lawsuit-20120801,0,7093984.story}}</ref> and an increased crime rate,<ref>{{cite news |title=Koreatown Crime|newspaper=Los Angeles Times |url=http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/neighborhood/koreatown/crime/ |access-date=2012-08-27|archive-date=2013-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801231321/http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/neighborhood/koreatown/crime/|url-status=live}}</ref> prompting an exodus of Koreans from the area. Furthermore, the aftermath of the 1992 riots witnessed a large number of Koreans from Southern California moving to the [[San Francisco Bay Area]] and opening businesses and buying property near downtown [[Oakland, California|Oakland]], furthering the growth of that city's [[Koreatown#Oakland, California|Koreatown]] until the early 2000s.<ref name="Oakland's got Seoul">{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-s-got-Seoul-Koreatown-emerges-as-hub-of-2810111.php#page-1|title=Oakland's got Seoul / Koreatown emerges as hub of Asian culture and downtown's rebirth|date=June 13, 2002|work=[[SF Gate]] |location=Oakland|access-date=March 2, 2013|archive-date=May 17, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517220405/http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-s-got-Seoul-Koreatown-emerges-as-hub-of-2810111.php#page-1|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
According to Park (1998), the violence against Korean Americans in 1992 stimulated a new wave of political activism among Korean Americans, but it also split them into two main camps. The "liberals" sought to unite with other minorities in Los Angeles to fight against racial oppression and scapegoating. The "conservatives," emphasized [[law and order (politics)|law and order]] and generally favored the economic and social policies of the Republican Party. The conservatives tended to emphasize the political differences between Koreans and other minorities, specifically blacks and Hispanics.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Park |first=Edward J. W. |title=Competing visions: Political formation of Korean Americans in Los Angeles, 1992-1997 |journal=Amerasia Journal |year=1998 |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=41–57 |doi=10.17953/amer.24.1.320208pj23401021 |s2cid=146498339 |url=http://aascpress.metapress.com/content/320208pj23401021/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130826231444/http://aascpress.metapress.com/content/320208pj23401021/ |archive-date=2013-08-26}}</ref> Abelmann and Lie, (1997) report that the most profound result was the politicization of Korean Americans, all across the U.S. The younger generation especially realized they had been too uninvolved in American politics, and the riot shifted their political attention from South Korea to conditions in the United States.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Abelmann |first1=Nancy |last2=Lie |first2=John |title=Blue dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles riots |year=1997 |location=Cambridge |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=0-674-07705-9 |pages=184–185}}</ref>
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