My 20-year-old college daughter is a perennial reminder to me of how old the Los Angeles riots were; she was born 20 years ago on Sept. 21, 1992. I was pregnant with her when the riots happened. For her generation, Korean American culture and history is about K-pop, Korean drama, galbi houses and noraebang. It saddens me because so many have no idea about the fiery economic holocaust that shook their ethnic community 20 years ago. Today, Los Angeles Koreatown is economically alive and thriving. Like a phoenix, the community has risen from ashes and is now larger, more colorful and bustling with people from all corners of Southern California coming to shop, sing, eat and dance. But, at times when I drive through Koreatown, I feel a sense of regret and sadness that too many people don’t know what we went through 20 years ago. If people are not educated enough about what happened, how can we prevent history from repeating itself?