By Lily Kim
With one week left to prepare for one of the city’s most colorful events, the Chicago Korean Festival suffers to put on the two-day spectacle. The festival’s committee is working with a negative bank account in the tens of thousands and with significantly less sponsors to support the event that will be held in the Albany Park neighborhood on Saturday and Sunday August 9-10.
“We just have to put a festival to make sure there is a 19th annual celebration,” said festival chairman Dan Lee. “We will do the best we can so the people can come an experience the Korean culture in Chicago.”
Two weeks ago, the new president of the Chicago Korean Chamber of Commerce announced that the location would move back from Northeastern University to the original site on Bryn Mawr between Kimball and Kedzie Avenues. This did not go well with several of the committee members and many dropped out.
Posted on August 5, 2014
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