Brisbane's South Asian community sits mainly south of the river — Sunnybank, Runcorn, Calamvale, Stretton and Eight Mile Plains — with rapid growth west through Springfield Lakes, Forest Lake, Redbank Plains and Ipswich, and a newer cluster north around North Lakes and Mango Hill.
It is a smaller community than Melbourne's or Sydney's, and that changes the dynamic: the networks are tighter, word travels faster, and a good number of Brisbane members are also open to matches in Sydney or interstate.
Brisbane's Korean community is younger and smaller than Sydney's — students, working-holiday alumni who stayed, and young families — spread through the southside around Sunnybank's pan-Asian precinct and the CBD, with church congregations again the connective tissue.