Officially designated “Koreatown” in September 2023 by Buena Park, the nearly three-mile stretch of Beach Boulevard starting at Orangethorpe Avenue and ending near Rosecrans Avenue includes around 100 Korean businesses – everything in The Source at one end with Smoking Tiger Bread Factory and Stereoscope Coffee on the other. While this particular Koreatown isn’t multiple blocks wide, the collection of places on Beach does include Korean day spa K Spa, plazas anchored by H Mart, Super 1 Mart, and Zion Market supermarkets, and locations of Baekjeong Korean BBQ, BB.Q. Chicken, Yuchun, AYCE KBBQ (Gangnam Station) and sushi (X-Fish Izakaya) restaurants, plus numerous small Korean businesses along the way. There’s even a combination Honeymee and car wash near the middle of the district at Malvern Avenue. Non-Korean places including 85 Degrees C Bakery, Kobe Gyukatsu, Súp Noodle Bar are also scattered throughout the street’s plazas.
Walking Buena Park’s Koreatown from end to end without stopping would take about an hour, but most visitors will want to drive through the area and park at one or multiple places along the way – likely The Source for a large collection of stores and restaurants, or one of the supermarket-anchored plazas further north. Parking is free virtually everywhere throughout the area. Note that this Koreatown shouldn’t be confused with Garden Grove’s or LA’s same-named districts, which predate Buena Park’s by many years.
