//BCD Tofu House Founder Hee Sook Lee, Who Helped Put Korean Food on the Map, Has Died

BCD Tofu House Founder Hee Sook Lee, Who Helped Put Korean Food on the Map, Has Died

Hee Sook Lee, who founded the popular BCD Tofu House chain of restaurants, has died at the age of 61, as reported by the Koreatown Youth and Community Center’s (KYCC) Facebook page. Lee founded BCD Tofu House in LA’s Koreatown in 1996, growing the silken tofu stew restaurant into a 13-location chain across Southern California and even into Texas, New Jersey, and New York City. In the past, BCD expanded into Seattle, Tokyo, and Seoul, though those locations are no