One night in August, Chong Man Kim and his wife, Byung Sook, arrived home after a long day working at their grocery store to find that their house in Eugene, Ore., had been ransacked.
Nearly every drawer had been emptied. The pockets of many of their clothes had been turned inside out. A safe hidden deep upstairs had been pried open. Another safe had disappeared altogether.
Gone was their life savings. Their wedding rings. Family heirlooms. Even the Eisenhower dollars that Mr. Kim had collected over the years.
Only the pennies were left behind.
“Fifty years of saving money, 50 years of dreams,” Mr. Kim, 69, said in a recent interview. “I just wanted a better life for my kids, and now for what?”
The police told him that they believed the robbery was among the first in a wave of burglaries targeting Asian households in the area.
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