Quotes About Korean

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

Conan O'Brien

#2. Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#3. I'm an atheist - a good old North Korean-style atheist.

Jim Crace

#4. Because of the Korean free trade agreement, South Koreans who want Oregon blueberries are gonna see their prices go down because we will be getting rid of a 45 percent tariff on this Oregon product.

Ron Wyden

#5. So this is the way we live now: conditioned by the awareness that no North Korean provocation, however egregious, can be confronted, lest it furnish the occasion or pretext for something truly barbarous and insane.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.

Kim Ji-woon

#7. As a person, to inspire some young girls and give them something to look at and give them something to play for, I think is such a great position to be in. I'm glad that I can follow all of the great Korean players' footsteps.

Inbee Park

#8. People don't really assume that I'm Filipino. Of course, they're gonna think, 'Oh, are you some sort of Hispanic?' and you say, 'No, I'm actually not.' I get Korean or Chinese a lot.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#9. Those North Korean hackers are at it again. Earlier today they leaked Santa's naughty list.

David Letterman

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

Henry Cho

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

Chris Hardwick

#12. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been awarded the highest rank in the country's military. The decision was praised by everyone from Parliamentary leader Kim Jong Un to opposition leader Kim Jong Un.

Conan O'Brien

#13. He wanted to know what assurance we could give the American people that we aren't getting the tar licked out of us by the North Korean army. It has never happened to us. It won't happen this time.

Harry S. Truman

#14. A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.

John Pomfret

#15. Since the Korean War, U.S. and South Korea have established an enduring friendship with shared interests, such as denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, combating aggression abroad and developing our economies.

Charles B. Rangel

#16. The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color.

Barbara Demick

#17. That is a reward that humbles me: the fact that immigrants coming to America, much like I did, can come into a Forever 21 and know that all of this was started by a simple Korean immigrant with a dream.

Do Won Chang

#18. I had a visceral connection to the period [of Korean War]. By visceral I suppose I mean emotional. But every fiction requires so much that is not that so I did a lot of other research and a lot of thinking, a lot of struggling there.

Chang-rae Lee

#19. It looked rather stylish next to my wife's glass of wine, like a still from a North Korean IKEA catalogue.

Lennard Van Ree

#20. I guess the difference between the Korean hip-hop scene and the American hip-hop scene is that in the American hip-hop scene, you know, they have their Jay-Zs. They can become conglomerates through hip-hop. In Korea, it doesn't happen.

Tablo

#21. The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America.

Kathleen Sebelius

#22. The anti-Japanese resistance was as familiar a theme in North Korean cinema as cowboys and Indians was in early Hollywood.

Barbara Demick

#23. You had nightmares every night for a long time and screamed in Korean words, but we didn't know what they meant. I asked someone who knew Korean, and he said it was um-ma um-ma, the word for mom.

Soojung Jo

#24. If you're not fascinated by Korea yet, you damn well should be. The most innovative country on earth deserves a hilarious and poignant account on the order of Euny Hong's The Birth of Korean Cool. Her phat beats got Gangnam Style and then some.

Gary Shteyngart

#25. I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.

Daniel J. Evans

#26. I never had the chance to decide; I was drafted to serve my nation. While I received a deferment to attend school, I ultimately served in the United States Army in the years following the Korean conflict.

Don Young

#27. I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations specialist in the all-black 503rd Field Artillery Battalion in the Second Infantry Division.

Charles B. Rangel

#28. Master Fwap, who told me that snowboarding, or any activity could be improved by the practice of meditation. Since I had had previously some training in Korean martial arts, I was somewhat open to the idea.

Frederick Lenz

#29. North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years.

Barbara Demick

#30. The oldest of North Korean labor camps, Bukchang had been hosting dissidents and alleged enemies of the state since the fifties .

David Baldacci

#31. I always think of the future. I think that's how I can work happily now. And I always think 'where would I be living if I married a Korean person?' I work hard now for my future, my future wife and family.

Nichkhun

#32. In Korean, my lyrics are witty and have twists. But translated into English, it doesn't come over. I've tried writing in English, just for me, but it doesn't work. I've got to know everything about a culture, and I don't.

Psy

#33. My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.

Daniel Dae Kim

#34. I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.

Chuck Feeney

#35. People say mountains change in about ten years. If something as stubborn and mammoth as a mountain can change in a decade, the hearts of ordinary North Koreans can change. I'm sure of it. I'm living proof." --Ha Young, a North Korean defector

Jieun Baek

#36. Including myself, the majority of the Korean people believe in this staunch alliance between Korea and the United States and all of us hope that our traditional alliance will be further strengthened in the future.

Lee Myung-bak

#37. Western ghosts are evil, but Korean ghosts are about making peace. That is part of our Korean psyche.

Min-sik Choi

#38. Dave? This is John. Your pimp says bring the heroin shipment tonight, or he'll be forced to stick you. meet him where we buried the Korean whore. The one without the goatee."
That was code. It meant "Come to my place as soon as you can, it's important.

David Wong

#39. But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies.

Sarah Palin

#40. 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.

Kim Hyesoon

#41. All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.

Oliver North

#42. The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.

Ha-Joon Chang

#43. In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.

Bong Joon-ho

#44. 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!

George Lopez

#45. We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.

Evan Bayh

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

Kim Hyesoon

#47. 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.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#48. As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If I ask questions, nobody raises their hands - not because they don't know the answers, but because they don't want to step out of line.

Dan Shechtman

#49. Japan continues to work closely with the United States on the issue of the North Korean nuclear crisis and has played an important and constructive role in the Six-Party talks.

Michael K. Simpson

#50. Daryl Dixon: You got some balls for a Chinaman.
Glenn: I'm Korean.
Daryl Dixon: Whatever.

The Walking Dead

#51. Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea.

Rick Yune

#52. Although North Korea's position differs (from Tokyo's), Japan's basic stance remains unchanged ? to seek sincere responses from the North Korean side to resolve the abduction and nuclear issues,

Junichiro Koizumi

#53. As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then.

Thomas Frank

#54. Russian, Japanese and Korean scientists has recently mapped the genome of ancient mammoths,

Yuval Noah Harari

#55. Carve the peg by looking at the hole.' Eddie looked at me blankly and I explained, 'An old Korean saying. It means, Do things to fit the circumstances.

Alan Brennert

#56. It is the experience of those who have had to do with the various peoples of the Far East that it is easier to understand the Korean and get close to him than it is to understand either the Japanese or the Chinese.

Homer B. Hulbert

#57. I want to help promote Korean music around the world.

Swizz Beatz

#58. I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

Hans Blix

#59. 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.

Douglas MacArthur

#60. Ten thousand people were baptized in the Han river in Seoul, Korea. Imagine! 10,000 people giving their lives to Christ at one time! I will never forget it! ----I felt that the constant prayers of the Korean people had made the difference. I think we in the west should take prayer more seriously.

Helen Goldie

#61. He was half-white and half-Korean, but when asked about his ethnicity, he always said Hawaiian, a declaration of racial neutrality that, more often than not, let him avoid further inquest.

Don Lee

#62. In Toronto and Los Angeles, too, there are a lot of Koreans - Koreatown, Korean markets. I feel like I'm at home and very comfortable.

Kim Yuna

#63. I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go ... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?'

Clint Eastwood

#64. I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

Clint Eastwood

#65. To make revolution in Korea we must know Korean history and geography as well as the customs of the Korean people. Only then is it possible to educate our people in a way that suits them and to inspire in them an ardent love for their native place and their motherland.

Kim Il-sung

#66. China pays a great deal of attention to the Korean nuclear issue. We stand for achieving denuclearization of the peninsula in a peaceful way through dialogue and consultation to maintain peace and stability of the peninsula and Northeast Asia.

Hu Jintao

#67. To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

Chang-rae Lee

#68. I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done.

John Conyers

#69. 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.

Kim Hyesoon

#70. The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men who were being called to serve were World War II veterans participating in Ready Reserve units.

J. Anthony Lukas

#71. The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.

Clint Eastwood

#72. I play Sun-Hi, a Korean-American girl who is a social media expert and dreams of becoming a worldwide star. Being on Make It Pop is so much fun because we get to sing dance and act all in one production which is a dream come true! Working with the cast and crew is also a blast!

Megan Lee

#73. Any online gamblers here? Well, Congress is looking in shutting that down.There's going to be a massive congressional investigation of online gambling and they're going to shut it down. And when they get done with that, they're going to look into this North Korean thing.

David Letterman

#74. You stupid chick ... nun ... whatever. I'm a tenth-degree black belt in Korean Karate!" "But you don't have the power of God, you uncircumcised philistine!

James Scott Bell

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

Chang-rae Lee

#76. Just like any other company, Samsung can fail, and if that happens, how will the South Korean economy overcome the shock? If we don't decrease our over-reliance on the chaebols and prepare to let smaller, dynamic start-ups fill the gaps in their place, it won't.

Kim Young-ha

#77. I'm not partial to any system, but at the same time, I'm a Korean actor, so I expect to work mainly on Korean projects.

Bae Doona

#78. South Korea first allowed women into the military in 1950 during the Korean War. Back then, female soldiers mainly held administrative and support positions. Women began to take on combat roles in the 1990s when the three military academies, exclusive to men, began accepting women.

Kim Young-ha

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

David Sedaris

#80. A guesstimate?" prompted the man Enrique. "About your dad?" "Ballpark will do," the Korean lady said.

Donna Tartt

#81. American dog say, 'Woof, woof.' Korean dog say, 'Mung, mung.' Polish dog say, 'How, how.' So which dog barking is correct? That is human beings' barking, not 'dog' barking. If dog and you become one hundred percent one, then you know sound of barking. This is Zen teaching. Boom! Become one.

Seung Sahn

#82. North Korean students and intellectuals didn't dare to stage protests as their counterparts in other Communist countries did. There was no Prague Spring or Tiananmen Square. The level of repression in North Korea was so great that no organized resistance could take root.

Barbara Demick

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

Psy

#84. 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.

Kate Obenshain

#85. ...travel permits to Pyongyang were notoriously hard to get. In order to keep Pyongyang as a showcase city, the North Korean government restricted visitors.

Barbara Demick

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

Kim Hyesoon

#87. I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?

Mort Walker

#88. In Seoul, people like me get called Japanese bastards, and in Japan, I'm just another dirty Korean no matter how much money I make or how nice I am. So what the fuck?

Min Jin Lee

#89. Korean feminism is on the brink of death. Korea has a less clear boundary between popular literature and serious literature than in other countries. I feel that feminism is abandoned like a product that was a craze in the past.

Kim Hyesoon

#90. 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.

David Letterman

#91. My daughter likes Korean drama more than I do.

Peng Liyuan

#92. There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

Bong Joon-ho

#93. The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.

Paul Robeson

#94. Look at this," Henry called from a few yards away. His voice was theatrically shocked. "I have discovered that, at some point, this side door was broken into by a teenage Korean vandal.

Maggie Stiefvater

#95. I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.

Patrick Stump

#96. I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.

Kim Young-sam

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

Katherine Heigl

#98. I'm one-half Cherokee, one-half Irish, one-half Turkish, one-half Australian and one-half Korean." "Excuse me, but that's five halves," said Maggie.

Cuthbert Soup

#99. There's this secret Korean taco/cupcake truck I go to. To find it, you have to bring a hard-boiled egg to this deli in Bushwick where they give you the address.

Kurt Braunohler

#100. I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.

Hugh Jackman