Korean Quotes

I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.

I was told many times that my writing was either too Korean - or not Korean enough.

They don't like anyone who isn't Korean, and they don't like each other all that much, either. They're hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards, 'the Irish of Asia'.

It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace of the Korean people.

I'm really happy to see the explosion of interest in Korean food, and this hybrid Korean-American food.

I was drafted during the Korean War.

If Sony's not going to show 'The Interview,' that's it. No more North Korean movies for me.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un reportedly has had 15 of his top officials executed. So the lesson here is when Kim Jong Un comes to work with a new haircut, you tell him, 'Looking good, Un.'

If a North Korean ballistic missile can reach Alaska, it can reach Vladivostok.

The era of strategic patience with the North Korean regime has failed. Many years, and it's failed. And, frankly, that patience is over.

The only way to resolve the North Korean problem is to change the regime.

I don't notice any sympathy for them in [ Nicholas Kristof] column. If you're writing a column saying the people for Trump are Nazis and Klansman and North Korean dictators.

Gaining trust is not difficult for me. I needed to gain the trust of the North Korean supervisors.

The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.

To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.

North Korean dictator Kim Jung Il may be stepping down. Yeah, experts in the State Department say he could be replaced by his son, Menta Li Ill.

The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence.

I like Korean employees and I like Korean tenants.

Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.

I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.

From now on, we're home schooling you. Whatever we don't know, you don't know. When did the Korean War start? I don't know, and neither do you!

The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism.

It is natural for us to pay attention to North Korea and human rights issues of North Korean defectors but I wish people would not try to create stars. The reality is different from Hollywood movies.

So, I'm from the South. So I guess that makes me South Korean.

I'm smart cause I'm Korean, I'm not so smart cause I'm from the south. They cancel each other out, so I'm even.

I can see why the Russians love Robert Burns, I think that Russians and Koreans have a very similar outlook to Scots.

It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same amount of money on defense, in real terms, every single year.

President Reagan rushed home from Santa Barbara vacation, from the Reagan ranch when the Korean jetliner was shot out of the air by the Russians.

My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.

Living in South Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literary world I am involved in.

Korean feminism has been swept away by popular culture. It became a sort of old-fashioned trend or a joke.

It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends up being swept away by popular culture in Korea.

Living in Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literary world I am involved in now.

As a university student, I tried hard to write poems in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.

Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons.

Speaking as an outsider is the most authentic voice for a poet. Poets who have one hundred thousand or one million readers [as many South Korean poets do] might not be a real, authentic poet.

I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.

In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.

It makes it very hard to say what you believe in and not be attacked for it. And it's not fair; I'm Korean, but I'm not supposed to talk about my experience and my life? It's unaccepting.

The entire world has one goal, and that is the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, we want to achieve that peaceably, but all options are on the table.

Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great Divergence.

I tend not to use the humor which would only apply to Koreans, or which would only affect the Koreans, as much as I can.

In my creative films, if there was something, some humorous moment that is lost to a non-Korean speaking audience, I'll be very sad.

I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean.

Thanks to many great K-pop singers, the groundwork has been laid for more Korean songs to be readily accessible to an overseas audience via channels like YouTube.

I will bring more Korean dance moves and Korean songs overseas.