Consulate in LA will setup an Emergency Storhouse
South Korea’s Consulate General in Los Angeles will set up a warehouse for the storage of relief materials as part of efforts to counter natural disasters.
Consul General Kim Jae-soo said Tuesday that the office decided to set up the warehouse upon request by the Korean community in L.A. following a five-point-eight magnitude earthquake that shook Chino Hills near L.A.
Measuring 50 square meters, the underground warehouse will be the first of its kind for Koreans in L.A.’s Koreatown.
The storehouse will hold enough tents, blankets, water, food, emergency medicine and batteries for some three-thousand people. The Korean community plans to organize a fund-raising event to purchase the relief items.