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A mother and daughter reimagined the Korean hanbok. Now they’re dressing the San Diego Padres


Estella Park Riahi never thought she’d join her mother’s business, but now she’s an enthusiastic partner

Back then, making and selling hanbok – traditional Korean garments – alongside her immigrant mother, Laura Park, in Los Angeles’s Koreatown was the last thing Riahi wanted to do. Little would Riahi have guessed that today, at age 33, she would be working for her family’s hanbok business on the side of her full-time job as an attorney – and completely by choice. She now lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she works as an intellectual property associate at a law firm, but continues to support the family business in her spare time, assisting with strategy, marketing and communications.

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