koreatown burned down. it's like we own l.a. now.lf the l.a. >> now korean culture, grow up in size, all the over the world influence, you know? >> filmmakers, all the top korean filmmakers. >> oh, yeah. >> what about me? >> yeah. >> artists, right? >> except you. >> sorry, david. [ laughter ] >> today i went into all the different ways you guys used to beat us when we were kids, the stress positions, you know? all the korean punishments. >> what's remarkable to me, every kid, i mean, all korean kids. >> yeah, all korean kids. >> the same position. you either hold a book -- >> oh, yeah, that's the way we learned, from generation to generation. we don't know why. >> to take a peek into the dark heart of the korean psyche, maybe it helps to get familiar with han. it's a concept that for non-koreans can be difficult to fully grasp. >> all right. you want it? here we go. han denotes a collective feeling of oppression and isolation in the face of overwhelming odds. it connotes aspects of lament and injustice. in some occasions, anthropolo

koreatown was left to its own devices. olympic boulevard to the south, vermont avenue in the east and western avenue to the west. that's three square miles left pretty much to burn or fend for itself. this rooftop quickly became the command post for rapidly improvised korean defense forces. they armed themselves, set up crude but effective command and control, communication and patrols. >> we weren't going around just slugging and capping people. all that was happening was just don't break down my store. making sure our parents, our uncles, our families, these stores, this town, stays alive. >> 58 people were killed. only a quarter of korean-owned businesses survived, either destroyed outright during the riots or abandoned afterwards by owners who felt the entire underpinning of their contract with america had shifted. yet today, koreatown is bigger and better and forever changed by what happened in 1992. dong il jang, however, is as unwaveringly old school as you get. roy and i sit down with roy kim, whose grandfather ope