Olympic Boulevard fire

Hyungwon Kang/Los Angeles Times

First responders tend to a building fire on Olympic Boulevard and Catalina Street in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles, California on May 1, 1992 during the third day of Sa I Gu. This photo by L.A. Times photojournalist Hyungwon Kang is used on the Reading Sa I Gu website produced by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. The website provides a Korean American perspective on what are known as the 1992 Los Angeles Riots or Los Angeles Uprising.

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