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Riverside may develop a Korean-American Cultural Center that would be located at California Citrus State Historic Park.
The city council recently approved a memorandum of understanding with the Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Foundation of the Americas to “explore” such a project, according to a statement on the city’s website.
In 1905, Dosan Ahn Chang Ho founded the Pachappa Camp, which was home to 300 Koreans while they worked in the local citrus industry. Later, he became a leader in the movement to end Japan’s occupation of Korea, and he was the minister of labor of the Korean Provisional Government in exile.
In 2001, a statue in his honor was erected on the Main Street Mall at University Avenue.
“Dosan Ahn Chang Ho exemplifies the values that we treasure as Americans, and this center would help current and future generations understand how his time in our city changed the course of history,” said Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson in the statement.
The cost of the project has not been determined. The foundation is raising money in California and South Korea, according to the statement.
