Korean immigrant champions cause of Aurora's global residents

Local News Korean immigrant champions cause of Aurora's global residents .chip { background-image: url('/fly/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/chip-bgd/chip-bgd-cbs-news-colorado.jpg'); } By Anna Alejo Anna Alejo Executive Producer of Community Impact Anna Alejo is CBS News Colorado's Executive Producer of Community Impact. She works with the news team to develop more grassroots relationships and original content at the neighborhood and local business level, ensuring a wide range of perspectives are represented in programming. Read Full Bio Anna Alejo Updated on: August 20, 2024 / 2:39 PM MDT / CBS Colorado Add CBS News on Google Editor's note: The 2025 Global Fest festival will take place on Saturday,  June 14. The City of Aurora is working with South Korea to establish a consulate here. It would serve the more than 41,000 Korean immigrants in Colorado, and hundreds of Korean immigrant-owned businesses in the city. A key figure in these efforts is Aurora Coordinator of International Community Outreach Minsoo Song. CBS "Our office works closely with the local immigrant and refugee community and reaching out to the community," said Song. "I'm super grateful that I get to work with the community that I really love." Song helps bring international business to Aurora and works to build up immigrant owned businesses here as well. Her passion for Korean businesses in particular began with a longing for food from home -- after she came here to study at the University of Denver. "Aurora had the great grocery stores and Aurora had the really established Korean community," added Song. CBS M-mart on South Havana is one market she frequents and where she's also admired for her advocacy. Song is especially proud to manage Aurora's language access plan, where she helps all newcomers access city services in their native tongue. She knows first-hand how critical that is. "As a first generation immigrant, it is really hard to have a language barrier," said Song, "So every night I stil...