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=== Korean community === A small number of Korean immigrants have resided the area as early as the 1970s. In the 1990s, a continuous stream of [[Korean immigrants]] emerged into Fort Lee. A substantial number of affluent and educated [[Korean American]] [[professional]]s have settled in Bergen County since the early 2000s and have founded various academic and communally supportive organizations, including the Korean Parent Partnership Organization at the [[Bergen County Academies]] [[Magnet school|magnet high school]] and The Korean-American Association of New Jersey. Approximately 130 Korean stores were counted in downtown Fort Lee in 2000,<ref name="AsianAmericansContemporaryTrends">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5PSYZMs8TzEC&q=fort+lee+koreatown+pyong+min&pg=PA237|title=Asian Americans: Contemporary Trends and Issues Second Edition, Edited by Pyong Gap Min|publisher=Pine Forge Press - An Imprint of Sage Publications, Inc|year=2006|isbn=9781412905565|accessdate=July 24, 2016}}</ref> a number which has risen significantly since then, featuring restaurants and [[karaoke]] (''[[Karaoke|noraebang]]'') bars, grocery markets, education centers and [[bookstores]], banking institutions, offices, electronics vendors, apparel boutiques, and other commercial enterprises. Various Korean American groups could not reach consensus on the design and wording for a monument in Fort Lee as of early April 2013 to the memory of [[comfort women]], tens of thousands of women and girls, many Korean, who were forced into [[sexual slavery]] by [[Imperial Japanese Army|Japanese soldiers]] during [[World War II]].<ref>Semple, Kirk. [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/19/nyregion/monument-in-palisades-park-nj-irritates-japanese-officials.html "In New Jersey, Memorial for ‘Comfort Women’ Deepens Old Animosity"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 18, 2012.Accessed April 13, 2022.</ref><ref name="BergenCountyComfortWomen1">Sullivan, S. p. [https://www.nj.com/bergen/2013/06/japanese-american_congressman_visits_nj_comfort_women_memorial.html "Sexual slavery issue, discussed internationally, pivots around one little monument in N.J."], NJ Advance Media for [[NJ.com]], June 8, 2013. Accessed April 13, 2022. "The Palisades Park monument is the first in the United States to recognize what is widely believed to be an international atrocity — the systemic sexual slavery of women from Korea, the Philippines, China, Japan and the Netherlands during WWII. Erected in 2010, it's also prompted a visit from members of the Japanese parliament, been defaced by groups upset with its existence, and inspired similar memorials in Hackensack, Fort Lee and elsewhere in the United States."</ref> In May 2012, borough officials in neighboring Palisades Park rejected requests by two [[International diplomacy|diplomatic]] delegations from [[Japan]] to remove such a [[monument]] from a public park, a [[brass]] plaque on a block of stone, dedicated in 2010;<ref>{{cite web|author=Dan Ivers|date=April 6, 2013|title=Critics cause Fort Lee to reconsider monument honoring Korean WWII prostitutes|url=http://www.nj.com/bergen/index.ssf/2013/04/critics_cause_fort_lee_to_reconsider_monument_honoring_korean_wwii_prostitutes.html#incart_river_default|publisher=New Jersey On-Line LLC|accessdate=April 6, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Linh Tat|date=April 4, 2013|title=Controversy puts planned 'comfort women' memorial in Fort Lee on hold|url=http://www.northjersey.com/fortlee/Controversy_puts_planned_comfort_women_memorial_in_Fort_Lee_on_hold.html?page=all|publisher=North Jersey Media Group|accessdate=April 6, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Kirk Semple|date=May 18, 2012|title=In New Jersey, Memorial for 'Comfort Women' Deepens Old Animosity|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/19/nyregion/monument-in-palisades-park-nj-irritates-japanese-officials.html?_r=1|accessdate=July 12, 2012}}</ref> days later, a [[South Korea]]n delegation had endorsed Palisades Park's decision.<ref>{{cite web|author=Monsy Alvarado|date=July 12, 2012|title=Palisades Park monument to 'comfort women' stirs support, anger|url=http://www.northjersey.com/community/at_the_library/news/Palisades_Park_monument_to_comfort_women_stirs_support_anger.html|url-status=dead|publisher=North Jersey Media Group|accessdate=July 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120714013436/http://www.northjersey.com/community/at_the_library/news/Palisades_Park_monument_to_comfort_women_stirs_support_anger.html|archive-date=July 14, 2012}}</ref> In October 2012, a similar memorial was announced in nearby [[Hackensack, New Jersey|Hackensack]], to be raised behind the [[Bergen County Court House|Bergen County Courthouse]], alongside memorials to the [[Holocaust]], the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Famine of Ireland]], and the [[Armenian genocide]],<ref>{{cite web|author=Rebecca D. O'Brien|date=October 14, 2012|title=New Jersey's Korean community awakens politically|url=http://www.northjersey.com/news/174039211.html|publisher=North Jersey Media Group|accessdate=April 6, 2013}}</ref> and was unveiled in March 2013.<ref>{{cite web|author=S.P. Sullivan|date=March 8, 2013|title=Bergen County marks International Women's Day with Korean 'comfort women' memorial|url=http://www.nj.com/bergen/index.ssf/2013/03/bergen_county_marks_international_womens_day_with_korean_comfort_women_memorial.html#incart_river_default|publisher=© 2013 New Jersey On-Line LLC. All rights reserved|accessdate=April 6, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Monsy Alvarado|date=March 8, 2013|title=Memorial dedicated to women forced into sexual slavery during WWII|url=http://www.northjersey.com/news/Bergen_County_officials_.html?page=all|publisher=North Jersey Media Group|accessdate=April 6, 2013}}</ref> On May 23, 2018, a comfort women memorial was installed in Constitution Park in Fort Lee.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Fort Lee students give voice to 'comfort women' abused during World War II|url=https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/fort-lee/2018/05/23/fort-lee-nj-students-give-voice-comfort-women-abused-during-wwii/634547002/|access-date=March 16, 2019|website=North Jersey|language=en}}</ref> Youth Council of Fort Lee, a student organization led by Korean American high school students in Fort Lee designed the memorial.
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