This last month, KSP has been highlighting 6 businesses from Western Ave for our latest project, Legacies of Western Ave. or LOWA in short. In this project, we interviewed six Korean-American business owners about the history and changing landscape of owning and operating their small businesses on Western Avenue since the 1980s. This project builds on our K-Town Atlas, which is a collection of Digital story maps documenting the history, culture, and people of LA’s Koreatown and neighboring communities. Check out Legacies of Western Avenue here! In this episode, we want to give you all an inside look and speak with our KSP team who took part in making this project happen. The guests include our director Katherine Kim, project-interviewers Jonah lee and Jane Lee, and social media coordinator Janice Yun. We spoke about what Western Ave means to them, their experiences meeting the business owners, and the project’s impact online and with the store owners interviewed. Throughout the episode we will present snippets from our LOWA interviews. The interviews are all in Korean, but their translations are here: Legacies of Western Ave. Snippet Translations.  If you would like to know more about Legacies of Western, check out our website at koreatownstorytellingprogram.org. We will also like to thank every person who made this project possible. CreditsK-Town Atlas Project DirectorKatherine Yungmee KimKYCC Project LeadShawn KukKDI Project LeadJerome ChouKDI Design Coordinator Ross HansenKDI Graphic DesignerRachel KimK-Town Atlas ArcGIS ConsultantMiles Kim ParrLOWA Writer, History of Western Avenue Cristina TevesLOWA InterviewersJonah Lee, Jane LeeLOWA PhotographerEmanuel HahnLOWA VideographerPriscilla LeeK-Town Atlas Project CoordinatorDilan AskewK-Town Atlas Audio ProducerTony MoralesK-Town Atlas Social Media CoordinatorJanice YunLOWA EditorsDilan Askew, Jonah Lee, Monica NegreteLOWA Korean ProofreadersJonah Lee, Sehwa YoonLOWA Spanish ProofreadersMonica Negrete, Ana Sofia RodriguezKSP High School InternsLazar Johnson, Melany Robles, Jun Suh

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