a major criticism of the mainstream media's coverage of the riots was its pitting of koreans and blacks against one another and its framing of the la riots as having been caused by a black-korean conflict. as filmmaker dai sil kim-gibson, who created the 1993 documentary "sa-i-gu", described, "black-korean conflict was one symptom, but it was certainly not the cause of that riot. the cause of that riot was black-white conflict that existed in this country from the establishment of this country."