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Korean Consul General, L.A. Mayor hold first meeting

June 5, 2014
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti and Korean Consul General Kim Hyun-myung hold their first official meeting Wednesday. (Park Sang-hyuk / The Korea Times)

L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti and Korean Consul General Kim Hyun-myung hold their first official meeting Wednesday. (Park Sang-hyuk / The Korea Times)

Korean Consul General Kim Hyun-myung and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti held their first official meeting Wednesday at L.A. City Hall.

Kim, who took his post in April, said he and Garcetti agreed that the city’s Korean community is essential to the management of city hall.

He will actively help prepare Garcetti for his coming visit to Korea in November with a focus on KOTRA L.A., the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, Kim said.

“During my talk with Mayor Garcetti, I learned that there are a lot of 1.5- and second-generation Korean Americans currently working for the city, and I was promised that the city would work to help them enter the American political arena,” Kim said.

During the private meeting, Kim requested that Garcetti visit L.A. sister city Busan on his trip to Korea and discussed the exchange of arts and culture between Busan and Hollywood.