This week, the Fullerton City Council was expected to sign a memorandum of understanding, or MOU, with the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, a Korean nonprofit group that fosters trade between U.S. and Korean businesses, according to the O.C. Register.
The 2010 U.S. Census shows Fullerton is home to 15,500 residents with Korean ethnicity, 11.5 percent of the city’s population. The City of Fullerton predicts that by 2015 Asians will make up over 21% of their local population.
While Korean businessmen are making headway in Fullerton, the community has not found electoral success. City Commissioner Roland Chi ran for the City Council in 2010, garnering just over 9,000 votes, but he lost to Bruce Whitaker, who is now the Mayor of Fullerton, by about 2,500 votes, according to Smart Voter.
Chi was dogged throughout the race by allegations that he was a carpetbagger and that a supermarket he owns, in Garden Grove, poisoned eleven customers. A website launched against him, called Bad Chi, also linked to these negative articles about Chi: Continue reading