one of the largest armed camps in los angeles's koreatown was at the california market. on the first night after the officers' verdicts were returned, richard rhee, the market owner, set up camp in the parking lot with about 20 armed employees. one year after the riots, fewer than one in four damaged or destroyed businesses had reopened, according to the survey conducted by the korean-american inter-agency council. according to a "los angeles times" survey conducted eleven months after the riots, almost 40 percent of korean americans said they were thinking of leaving los angeles.