Korean American Community History

Do you know that Towson University has a long history with Greater Baltimore’s Korean community? View the timeline of Baltimore Koreatown – Towson University Historic Milestones 1965 – 2018.

Timeline (PDF)
The Crown Restaurant / Hyundai Plaza

Baltimore's First Koreatown

Baltimore’s Charles North neighborhood, home to AA&CC's annual Asia North Exhibition and Festival, is the site of Baltimore’s first unofficial Koreatown, which began to form in the 1960s and was at its height in the 1990s. 

Baltimore's First Koreatown
Soon He So

Soon He So: Continuing the Tradition

Local musician Dami Soh Schlobohm remembers her mentor, Soon He So who formed the Asian American Arts Academy in 1985 providing classes in various Korean-American churches throughout Maryland and Northern Virginia, giving students an opportunity to reconnect with their Korean heritage.

Soon He So
Sookkyung Park

Sookkyung Park: "Sookkyung’s Art"

Through her artwork, Sookkyung Park (TU MFA ‘23) shares her story as an immigrant and an artist, from establishing an arts and crafts studio in South Korea, to her exploration of different media to express the challenges and changes her family experienced when they immigrated to the US

Watch the Video on YouTube