Osaka Ikuno Korea Town

This guide to Osaka Ikuno Korea Town follows the Korean community that settled along the Hirano River from the 1920s, many from Jeju Island, and the 1947 ordinance that stripped them of citizenship and ration cards overnight. It traces how vendors on Miyuki-dori turned to a black market of kimchi, offal and other foods, and how that improvised trade became a formal market with shopkeeper associations by 1951. Walk the roughly three hundred meters between the four traditional gates, past hangul signs stacked over Japanese ones.