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Le Privé
Le Privé was a successful Koreans, Korean nightclub, club or "K-Club" in Los Angeles which was believed to be the largest Asian dance club in North America. Significance and Design The significance of this club had been reported in a variety of news media including LA Weekly, Asianweek, KoreAm Journal and the Seoul Times. The club featured Gothic accents, gargoyles with lights piercing from their eyes, plush velvet couches, private karaoke rooms, a large dance floor with integrated floor illumination system, and marble trimmed bathrooms. The club was located on 721 S. Western Ave and opened in 2000, but closed in 2006. In 2007, it reopened under new ownership and a new name, Le Cercle. A traditional bar set up where patrons would buy drinks at a localized station was not used. Instead, patrons were required to reserve a table/booth and order a bottle of liquor at a set price, which a waiter would bring to you along with a plate of fresh fruit. This was common practice at the v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koreans
Koreans are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Korean Peninsula. The majority of Koreans live in the two Korean sovereign states of North and South Korea, which are collectively referred to as Korea. As of 2021, an estimated 7.3 million ethnic Korean diaspora, Koreans resided outside of Korea. Koreans are also an officially recognised ethnic minority in other several Continental and East Asian countries, including Koreans in China, China, Koreans in Japan, Japan, Koryo-saram, Kazakhstan, Koryo-saram, Russia, and Koryo-saram, Uzbekistan. Outside of Continental and East Asia, sizeable Korean communities have formed in Koreans in Germany, Germany, the British Koreans, United Kingdom, Koreans in France, France, the Korean Americans, United States, Korean Canadians, Canada, Korean Australians, Australia, and Korean New Zealanders, New Zealand. Etymology South Koreans refer to themselves as ''Hanguk-in'' or ''Hanguk-saram'', both of which mean "people of the Han". The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nightclub
A nightclub or dance club is a club that is open at night, usually for drinking, dancing and other entertainment. Nightclubs often have a Bar (establishment), bar and discotheque (usually simply known as disco) with a dance floor, laser lighting displays, and a stage for live music or a disc jockey (DJ) who mixes recorded music. Nightclubs tend to be smaller than live music venues like theatres and stadiums, with few or no seats for customers. Nightclubs generally restrict access to people in terms of age, Clothing, attire, personal property, personal belongings, and behaviors. Nightclubs typically have dress codes to prohibit people wearing informal, indecent, offensive, or gang-related attire from entering. Unlike other entertainment venues, nightclubs are more likely to use Bouncer (doorman), bouncers to screen prospective patrons for entry. The busiest nights for a nightclub are Friday and Saturday nights. Most nightclubs cater to a particular music genre or sound for bran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3,878,704 residents within the city limits , it is the List of United States cities by population, second-most populous in the United States, behind only New York City. Los Angeles has an Ethnic groups in Los Angeles, ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a Metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan area of 12.9 million people (2024). Greater Los Angeles, a combined statistical area that includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18.5 million residents. The majority of the city proper lies in Los Angeles Basin, a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LA Weekly
''LA Weekly'' is a free weekly alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, California. The paper covers music, arts, film, theater, culture, and other local news in the Los Angeles area. ''LA Weekly'' was founded in 1978 by Jay Levin (among others), and he served as the publication's editor from 1978 to 1991, as well as its president from 1978 to 1992. Publication history Founding Jay Levin put together an investment group that included actor Michael Douglas, Burt Kleiner, Joe Benadon, and Pete Kameron. Levin's co-founders included Joie Davidow, Michael Ventura, and Ginger Varney. Levin was formerly the publisher of the '' Los Angeles Free Press''. The majority of the ''LA Weekly'''s initial staff members came from the '' Austin Sun'', a similar-natured bi-weekly, which had recently ceased publication. The group were inspired to create the ''LA Weekly'' by their work at the ''Sun'' as well as other alternative weeklies such as the ''Chicago Reader'' and Boston's '' The Real Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asianweek
''AsianWeek'' was America's first and largest English-language print and on-line publication serving East Asian Americans. The news organization played an important role nationally and in the San Francisco Bay Area as the “Voice of Asian America”. It provided news coverage across all East Asian ethnicities. ''AsianWeeks nature was reflected in its name -- both its weekly frequency and its focus on a pan-ethnic East Asian identity, as the only all English publication serving the Asian community. ''AsianWeek'' was one of the newspapers owned and operated by the Fang family of San Francisco, with others including the San Francisco Independent and the San Francisco Examiner. It was founded by John Fang in 1979 and helmed by long-time ''AsianWeek'' President James Fang from 1993-2009. ''AsianWeek'' headquarters were located in San Francisco's Chinatown. It stopped publishing a weekly print edition in 2009, and on-line publication ceased in 2012. In 2023, an archive of past issue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KoreAm Journal
''KoreAm'', or ''KoreAm Journal,'' was a monthly print magazine published from 1990 to December 2015. It was dedicated to news, commentary, politics, lifestyle and culture published in the United States. It was the oldest and most widely circulated English-language monthly magazine for the Asian American community. The magazine has featured prominent Asian American leaders, politicians, artists, entertainers, athletes and entrepreneurs. It also covered current events related to North Korea, South Korea, Asian Americans, immigrants and communities of color. In 2018, the publication relaunched as ''KORE magazine''. In April 2019, ''KORE'' rebranded as ''Character Media''. History ''KoreAm'' was founded by Jung Shig Ryu and James Ryu in 1990 in Los Angeles, California. The magazine highlighted news, stories, op-ed pieces and entertainment for the Kyopo community—ethnic Koreans living overseas, and primarily Koreans in the United States. The magazine highlighted Korean American p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seoul Times
Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities by GDP, sixth largest metropolitan economy in 2022, trailing behind New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Tokyo Area, Tokyo, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Paris metropolitan area, Paris, and London metropolitan area, London, and hosts more than half of South Korea's population. Although Seoul's population peaked at over 10 million, it has gradually decreased since 2014, standing at about 9.6 million residents as of 2024. Seoul is the seat of the Government of South Korea, South Korean government. Seoul's history traces back to 18 BC when it was founded by the people of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. During the Joseon dynasty, Seoul was officially designated as the capital, surrounded by the Fortress Wall of Seoul. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
