An Evening with Tony Moon “The Rooftop Korean”
$69.00
September 15 is release day for Rooftop Korean: A Memoir of the 1992 L.A. Riots — and Tony Moon spends the evening of it on our stage. A reading, a conversation, and a signing line. Every ticket includes your reserved seat and the hardcover, handed to you at the door. Seating is limited to 120. ADI members: your membership discount applies automatically when you register while logged in.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2026 · Doors 6:00 PM · Program 7:00–9:00 PM · Artemis Defense Institute, Lake Forest
In April 1992, the verdict came down, Los Angeles caught fire, and the police fell back. The world remembers what happened next as an image: Korean-American shopkeepers on the rooftops of Koreatown, armed, holding the line for their families when no one else would. Tony Moon lived the story behind that image. He was nineteen — an immigrant grocer’s son, a car salesman from Alhambra — when the phone rang on the second night and a friend said the words that put him in the middle of the fight for Koreatown: “You know why I called, right?”
Rooftop Korean is his memoir of that week and everything that led to it — the family that crossed the world to build corner markets open 363 days a year, the streets that nearly swallowed him first, the five days in April when ordinary people became their own defense, and the thirty years he has spent making sense of it. The book releases September 15. That night, he’s here.
Join us at the Institute for an evening with Tony Moon: a seated reading, an on-stage conversation and audience Q&A — the riots, the immigrant road that led to that week, and what it taught him about responsibility — and a signing line to close the night.
Q&A moderated by Steven Lieberman — attorney, CCW instructor, and host of The Counselor at Arms.
Your ticket includes
- Reserved seating for the evening’s program
- The Rooftop Korean first-edition hardcover (a $34.99 value) — a release-day copy, yours at check-in
- The signing line: meet Tony, have your book signed, take a photo
The evening
- 6:00 PM — Doors open: check in, pick up your book, and have a look around the Institute
- 7:00 PM — Reading and conversation with Tony Moon, followed by audience Q&A
- The signing line closes the night
Seating is limited to 120. When they’re gone, they’re gone.
ADI members: your membership discount is applied automatically when you register while logged in to your account.
Be among the first in the country to hold it.
