<figure id="attachment_8394" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8394" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2015/05/baltimore-korean-business-e1430442587307.jpg"><img class="wp-image-8394 size-full" src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2015/05/baltimore-korean-business-e1430442587307.jpg" alt="A Korean business owner in the doorway of his destroyed store. AP photo" width="650" height="433" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8394" class="wp-caption-text">A Korean business owner in the doorway of his destroyed store. AP photo</figcaption></figure>
<p><em><strong>From iamKorean.com</strong></em></p>
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<p><em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Pictured above: Richard Sung Kang leaves his damaged liquor store in the aftermath of the Baltimore riots. (Photo courtesy of AP Photo/Matt Rourke)</span></em></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Richard Sung Kang’s American dream shattered along with his liquor store’s window during the Baltimore riots earlier this week.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The 49-year-old Korean immigrant saw his liquor store and bar, the Oxford Tavern, wrecked by a group of violent rioters following the funeral of<span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/the-mysterious-death-of-freddie-gray/391119/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: Arial;">Freddie Gray</span></strong></a>, who died of a spinal injury he apparently received while in police custody. Despite Sung closing the front door, the looters smashed the window and plundered the establishment. Even the store’s ATM was torn out, leaving a gaping hole in the exterior wall of the building.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“This is America. I wanted to follow my dream and wanted to make something for myself,” Kang told the<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3063398/Baltimore-riot-damage-adds-burden-small-businesses.html" target="_blank">Associated Press</a></strong></span>. He added that it was only his first year of owning the business and was unsure of reopening the store, as it could mean taking on more debt and paying higher insurance premiums.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“The most important thing is, I have to move on,” Kang said as his locksmiths worked on his doors. “But is it better to rebuild and start again or give up and find some other place? I don’t know.” <a href="http://iamkoream.com/korean-american-businesses-damaged-from-baltimore-riots/" target="_blank">&#8230;..<strong><em>MORE</em></strong></a></span></p>
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