Korean Name: 김영옥 중학교
615 Shatto Place
Los Angeles
90005
*Just opened for the school year that starts September 9, 2009.
It's a middle school named after Korean-American war hero Kim Young-Oak, a colonel who was a highly decorated member of the U.S. Army’s 100th Infantry
Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team. Colonel Kim was a second-generation
Korean-American who was born in Los Angeles. He served in both World War II and
the Korean War.
Young Oak Kim Academy is the city's first middle school and third school
overall named for a Korean, after Charles H. Kim Elementary and
Mariposa-Nabi Primary Center.
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