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Koreatown Label Irks Some Residents

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Property owners in one Oakland neighborhood had an idea to rev up local business by rebranding the area as Oakland's Koreatown. But the branding has provoked anger from community members who say the decision to impose the name on a multiracial neighborhood was insensitive.

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