That family has grown and includes long-time customers like Beth Smith.
"I have been coming here for a long time, probably 20 years," noted Smith. "She remembers the birth of my daughter. She remembers all the, you know, I feel like family here."
Sales have increased over the decades and, today, this little shop has four staff members... including Ginger's husband and a manager.
"It is a huge success," said Ginger Park. "I mean certainly not on the level of Donald Trump, but for us it is a huge success. We wanted to build a life around our business and that is what we did."
The Park sisters also wanted to feed their literary side. They've co-authored eight books for children and adults. Their first, award-winning book,
My Freedom Trip
, is based on their mother's escape from North Korea when she was a teenager.
"We wanted to write the book as a tribute to our mother and her mother, and also perhaps to give children an idea of the price that other people had pay for freedom," said Frances Park.
The Park sisters also published a memoir that chronicles their quarter century behind the chocolate counter.
FRANCES PARK:
"It is actually about the ups and downs of two sisters who have always been very close, who went from being very young girls to being not very young girls, but still smiling."
GINGER PARK:
"Everyone who comes into our shop tells us you have the perfect life, and we say yes, you know what, we do, we really do. They go hand in hand, books and chocolate."
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