213 numbers for Koreatown businesses

Koreatown's main crossroads is Wilshire Boulevard at Western Avenue, where the Wiltern theatre stands. The office towers along Wilshire to the east went up from the 1950s, when the area was known as Wilshire Center, and Koreatown is now one of the Los Angeles neighborhoods recognized as a Preserve America community.

Restaurants, markets, salons, clinics and professional offices share its blocks. A business that serves customers in Korean and English needs a number that is just as easy to say in either language.

Numbers that fit

A vanity word only works in one language, so a bilingual business is better served by digits. Alternating pairs like 3737 are easy to say in Korean, English or Spanish.

No 213 number belongs to a particular neighborhood. Since the 2017 overlay, 213 numbers go to lines across the whole 213 and 323 area, not just downtown, and a 213 number on a mobile phone works anywhere.