EditorialAt left, a photograph and handwritten sign from Xueli Wang’s series “Mom, have you eaten?” 2023, next to five other photographs and a closely written note by Janice Chung, from her series “Han In Town (Koreatown),” 2022, on display at a mini-mall in Flushing, Queens, June 9, 2023. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
EditorialAt left, a photograph and handwritten sign from Xueli Wang’s series “Mom, have you eaten?” 2023, next to five other photographs and a closely written note by Janice Chung, from her series “Han In Town (Koreatown),” 2022, on display at a mini-mall in Flushing, Queens, June 9, 2023. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
EditorialAt left, a photograph and handwritten sign from Xueli Wang’s series “Mom, have you eaten?” 2023, next to five other photographs and a closely written note by Janice Chung, from her series “Han In Town (Koreatown),” 2022, on display at a mini-mall in Flushing, Queens, June 9, 2023. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
EditorialFood stalls in the Koreatown neighborhood of Shenyang, China, on Aug. 18, 2022. The city used to be a crucial link between China and North Korea, but the pandemic changed that. (Gilles Sabrie/The New York Times)
EditorialGreta Lee, the actress who stars in “Russian Doll,” at Space Billiards in the Koreatown neighborhood of Manhattan, April 20, 2022. (Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet/The New York Times)
EditorialKoreatown in New York has become one of city’s new outdoor dining districts due to the coronavirus pandemic, Aug. 18, 2020. (George Etheridge/The New York Times)
EditorialTyree Boyd-Pates, a curator at the Autry Museum of the American West, on the rooftop of his apartment building in Koreatown, Los Angeles, on May 14, 2020. (Adam Amengual/The New York Times)