Pequeño Seúl

Pequeño Seúl
Korean businesses on Florencia Street (2007)
Pequeño Seúl
Coordinates: 19°25′28″N 99°10′07″W / 19.4244°N 99.1686°W / 19.4244; -99.1686

Pequeño Seúl (Korean: 작은 서울; RR: jageun seoul; lit. Little Seoul) is a Koreatown in Mexico City. Most of the city's Korean population lives in and around the Zona Rosa.

According to the newspaper Reforma, there are at least 5,000 Koreans living in Zona Rosa and about 6,000 total in Colonia Juárez, the larger officially recognized neighborhood of which the Zona Rosa is a part of. Many Korean residents do not speak Spanish and are relatively isolated from their Mexican neighbors. The area around Hamburgo, Praga, Berna and Biarritz streets have converted into "Pequeño Seul," or Little Seoul, with Biarritz Street's residents almost 90% Korean. The number of Korean residents in the colonia continues to increase even as the number of younger people in general decreases.