QUOTE (aR3YouVi3T @ Jun 22 2004, 12:55 PM)
especially nail shops. why do koreans like dry cleaning?
No idea, but if you apply the same theory to Koreans as Nam did to Viets, i'd say because they have an obession with cleanliness, especially on clothes...
lol, joking... I think how it started is just what goes on in the communities. How it started here is one person saying "i make over 7 thousand a month, taxed and all, without lifting a finger in this business"... So everybody opens one cause it sounds easy, you sit and watch other people do the work and you come and visit once in a while to see how the business is going. Atleast that's how it started for one person i know.
Where i'm from Viets own half the bigger grocery stores (the non-white ones atleast, talking about the Chinatown ones), and i have yet to see a korean dry cleaner (but that's probably because there aren't too many koreans to start off with where i live). Trends start because it sounds like something simple to do i guess...