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

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

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

Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting. — Young-Ha Kim

The problem is, then you see immigrants saving cities in Baltimore and you see 40 Korean groceries get burned down. — Greg Gutfeld

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

After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance. — John Cullum

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

Daryl Dixon: You got some balls for a Chinaman.
Glenn: I'm Korean.
Daryl Dixon: Whatever. — The Walking Dead

I told my extremely conservative, uber-traditional Korean father, 'Hey, Dad, I know what I want to do for the rest of my life. I want to be an actor.' — Kenneth Choi

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. — Chang-rae Lee

Your life can be different, Young Ju. Study and be strong. In America, women have choices. — An Na

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

I was drafted during the Korean War. — Clint Eastwood

When you leave,
weary of me,
without a word I shall gently let you go. — Kim Sowol

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

Happy birthday to evil North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. He gathered family and friends together and celebrated by executing a few close friends. — David Letterman

I happen to have an obsession with Korean food. — Nina Garcia

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

Basically, Koreans are the Marlboro Men of Asia. — Euny Hong

I will keep the promise I made to you to open a new era on the Korean peninsula, based on strong security and trust-based diplomacy. — Park Geun-hye

Those North Korean hackers are at it again. Earlier today they leaked Santa's naughty list. — David Letterman

If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl. — An Na

Suicide in Korean culture is a highly emotive means of protest. The regime regards it as a form of defection. — Hyeonseo Lee

You may have an iPhone, for example, but its microchips are made by Apple's biggest competitor - the Korean electronics company Samsung. — Euny Hong

Even in the far future,
never forget the you of right now
Wherever you are right now,
you're just taking a break — BTS

Glory to the heroic soldiers of the Korean People's Army! — Kim Jong Il

When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils. — Park Chan-wook

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam. — Don DeLillo

I walked behind my father on the way to her headstone, he looked like a house that was caving in. — Kyung-Sook Shin

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

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

I'm an atheist - a good old North Korean-style atheist. — Jim Crace

Listening to South Korean television was like looking in the mirror for the first time in your life and realizing you were unattractive. — Barbara Demick

Russian, Japanese and Korean scientists has recently mapped the genome of ancient mammoths, — Yuval Noah Harari

Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect. — Alan Brennert

Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place? — Young-Ha Kim

I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance. — Bong Joon-ho

In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas. — Bong Joon-ho

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

I was a lost child. I wasn't accepted in the black community because I was Korean, and I wasn't accepted in the Korean community because I was black — Hines Ward

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

I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War. — Daniel J. Evans

It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il. — John Bolton

One day is enough to master reading in Korean. Hangeul is a very scientific and convenient alphabet system for communication. — J.M.G. Le Clezio

In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded. — Bong Joon-ho

In a mall cinema he watched a Korean film in which a man was locked in a room for fifteen years without finding out why. — Anonymous

Western ghosts are evil, but Korean ghosts are about making peace. That is part of our Korean psyche. — Min-sik Choi

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician. — Tablo

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

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. — Margaret Cho

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman. — David Bowie

If a Korean artist reaches to the top, we're all ready to stand up and applaud for him or her. — Psy

I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors. — Kim Young-sam

But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies. — Sarah Palin

The kindness of strangers and the support of the international community are truly the rays of hope we North Korean people need. — Lee Hyeon-seo

When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left. — Ban Ki-moon

We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people. — Evan Bayh

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

It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid. — Pat Frank

I'm Korean-American. Not Colombian. My parents are first-generation, and I'm like ... in-between, because I moved over here when I was four or five. — Steven Yeun

Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this. — Bae Doona

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

In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag. — Christopher Hitchens

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

North Korea. Not only does North Korean have nuclear weapons, but their leadership appears to not be rational. — Ted Lieu

When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury. — Lee Myung-bak

The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction. — Ha-Joon Chang

My daughter likes Korean drama more than I do. — Peng Liyuan

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

Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a United Nations operation. — John Eisenhower

Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders. — Amanda Ripley

Oh, sorry. My excitement must be clouding my ability to judge comedic hyperbole. — Daniel Palladino

I want to help promote Korean music around the world. — Swizz Beatz

There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players. — Inbee Park

Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking. — Kim Ji-woon

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

Korean films have always been distributed to international audiences as arthouse films. — Kim Ji-woon

A guesstimate?" prompted the man Enrique. "About your dad?" "Ballpark will do," the Korean lady said. — Donna Tartt

Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside. — Hans Vestberg

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. — Henry Cho

For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror. — Barbara Demick

As her students were dying, she was supposed to teach them that they were blessed to be North Korean. — Barbara Demick

Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests. — Dan Shechtman

Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war. — Kim Jong-un

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

The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people. — Paul Robeson

Korean audiences are amazing. The fans scream so loud, and that really surprises skaters when they first perform in my shows. — Kim Yuna

God too, has sinned, that's what I used to think. He looked down on this blazing hell, and he remained silent. (2007: 142) — Hwang Sok-yong

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

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

I think Korean barbecue is very accessible to Americans because it's sort of similar to something we know, but with different flavours. — Heather Graham

40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight. — Tom Lantos

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

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight. — Ban Ki-moon

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

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

The Korean word for tree rose in his mind, surprising him, like a fish breaking the surface of a calm pond. — Sun Yung Shin

As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform. — Charles B. Rangel

(The North Korean army had to lower its height requirement from five feet three in the early 1990s because of the stunting of the younger generation.) — Barbara Demick