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Korean grandmas get a surprise drum line performance while waiting for the bus in LA's Koreatown. The drumming celebration is now popular in Los Angeles, but it wasn't so much when it first started there in the late 1980s.

Koreatown’s ‘ghostbusters’ usher in good luck for the Year of the Goat

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If you go to LA’s Koreatown neighborhood at the Lunar New Year, it’s hard to miss the loud and colorful drumming crew parading the streets wishing good luck to local businesses. It’s now a beloved tradition, but it wasn’t always that way.

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