{"id":82249,"date":"2019-04-15T20:51:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T03:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/press-release\/kycc-korea-times-plant-trees-along-western-ave\/"},"modified":"2019-04-15T20:51:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T03:51:12","slug":"kycc-korea-times-plant-trees-along-western-ave","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/es\/press-release\/kycc-korea-times-plant-trees-along-western-ave\/","title":{"rendered":"KYCC, The Korea Times Plant 50 Trees On Western"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span lang=\"en\" tabindex=\"0\">On April 13, 2019, KYCC&#8217;s Environmental Services and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreatimes.com\">The Korea Times<\/a> planted 50 trees in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the largest Korean language newspaper in the United States.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en\" tabindex=\"0\">We are truly grateful for volunteers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/a53.asmdc.org\">Office of Assemblymember Miguel Santiago<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hwarang.us\/\">Hwarang Youth Foundation<\/a> for participating in this event and especially grateful to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcknc.la\">Wilshire Center Koreatown Neighborhood Council (WCKNC)<\/a><\/span><span lang=\"en\" tabindex=\"0\">\u00a0for their support.<\/p>\n<p>Student volunteers like Daniel Kim, a high school student who attended the tree planting event with his 8 year old brother, learned valuable lessons on how to help newly planted trees thrive and grow for years to come. Many participants expressed a greater desire for more green spaces in Koreatown, one of the most densely populated and least green urban neighborhoods in the country. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00abKYCC is pleased to partner with The Korea Times to commemorate its 50<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary by planting 50 trees along Western Ave. and beautifying Koreatown. We are committed to creating a safe and livable community through environmental initiatives and remain appreciative of the private-public partnerships to further empower the Koreatown community,\u00bb said Steve Kang, Director of External Affairs at Koreatown Youth and Community Center. KYCC&#8217;s Environmental Services team started planting trees to beautify Koreatown after the 1992 riots and have since planted 1,200 trees every year in the Greater Los Angeles area.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"tw-target-text\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span lang=\"en\" tabindex=\"0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 13, 2019, KYCC&#8217;s Environmental Services and The Korea Times planted 50 trees in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the largest Korean language newspaper in the United States.\u00a0We &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77996,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,203,232,259,292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82249","press-release","type-press-release","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category--es","category--our-stories-es","category-environmental-services-es","category-koreatown-es","category-volunteer-es"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/82249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/82249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kyccla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}