News Summary

• Since opening Cote Korean Steakhouse in Flatiron in 2017, restaurateur Simon Kim has expanded to Miami, Singapore, Las Vegas and back to New York.
• Next year, he will launch a three-level midtown surf-and-turf extravaganza, 550 Madison.
• “Koreans never really ate fried chicken until American GIs came over during the Korean War in the 1950s,” says Kim, who was born in Seoul and moved to Long Island when he was 13.