![]() "They were impressed by Aurora's large Korean community, but they also wanted to expand their market to the larger, non-Korean community," she explains. "There are nearly 180 Korean-owned businesses in Aurora," Song points out, many of them concentrated along stretches of South Havana Street and East Mississippi Avenue.Īs part of its mission to attract more businesses to Aurora, the Office of International and Immigrant Affairs took a recent trip to Korea, where Song met the CEO of Vons Chicken. Korean immigrants are another group in the top four and have become a growing presence in the community. "We have planned trips for the mayor.and we helped establish the first diplomatic post in the city, from El Salvador," Gambetta-Alvarado adds. The Consulate of El Salvador opened in Aurora in 2017, serving Salvadorans living in a four-state region the Denver suburb was chosen in part because Salvadoran immigrants are among the top four foreign-born populations in the city. "Our office was formed because the City of Aurora made the decision to make the city a destination for international business," Song explains. Now four years old, the office is run by Ricardo Gambetta-Alvarado and Minsoo Song, who coordinate with the mayor's office and various other branches of the municipal government to court businesses located abroad to establish themselves here, as well as to provide assistance for immigrants hoping to start entrepreneurial efforts or nonprofit organizations in the area and help them navigate the tricky pathways of city bureaucracy. Not long after and several states away, Aurora launched its Office of International and Immigrant Affairs. ![]() The company has a couple of chicken joints in Seoul (one of them open 24 hours), but many more in California, where Vons arrived in 2014. Vons is one of several Korean restaurant businesses that have landed in the U.S. And you can thank the City of Aurora if your bleary-eyed treasure hunt turns up a box labeled Vons Chicken. After a late night spent devouring wings and drumsticks in one of the growing number of K-pubs in the metro area, you're likely to wake up in the pre-dawn hours with an urge to rummage through your fridge in search of leftovers. There aren't many foods as addictive and all-consuming as crackly Korean fried chicken coated in a spicy-sweet glaze of yangnyeom sauce.
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