Korean Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Emotion, Film, Extremes

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• And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Two, Light, Korea

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• Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.

  Kim Jong-un

  War, Past, Records

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Tablo

  Musician, Pops, Knows

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• I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.

  Kim Young-sam

  Thinking, Issues, Korea

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• 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

  Sorry, Two, Police

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• To Koreans on the other side, we care about your freedom.

  Kim Young-sam

  Care, Sides, Your Freedom

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• 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

  Korea, Interesting, Heritage

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  New York, War, Doctors

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• Korean children get a lot of fuss made over them, I guess because life was tough in the old country, and it was a big deal if you survived. There's a big party thrown when you are 100 days old, followed by another when you make it to one whole year.

  Margaret Cho

  Country, Children, Party

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• 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

  Strong, Promise, Eras

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• 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

  Years, Parent, Three

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• North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the 'Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.' Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!

  Donald Trump

  Powerful, Leader, North Korea

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• Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Media, Departed, Kim Il Sung

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.507, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• He rolled his eyes. "First, my Dad's Korean and my mom was Swedish. Second, I totally suck at math. I don't like cuckoo clocks or skiing or fancy chocolate either." I sputtered a laugh. "I think that's Swiss.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Mom, Dad, Eye

  Kelley Armstrong (2008). “The Summoning: Number 1 in series”, p.196, Hachette UK

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• Drying her eyes, Mother said to Totto-chan very slowly, "You're Japanese and Masao-chan comes from a country called Korea. But he's a child, just like you. So, Totto-chan, dear, don't ever think of people as different. Don't think, 'That person's a Japanese, or this person's a Korean.' Be nice to Masao-chan. It's so sad that some people think other people aren't nice just because they're Koreans.

  Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

  Mother, Country, Children

  Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (2012). “Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window”, p.106, Kodansha USA

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• So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Korea, Want, Regimes

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• National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.

  Park Geun-hye

  Suffering, Sorrow, Partition

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• 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

  Japan, Korea, Issues

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• I saw the various museum displays including scenes of torture while feeling heartfelt remorse and sorrow over the great pain and suffering inflicted on South Koreans by Japan's colonial rule.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Pain, Museums, Japan

  "Koizumi: 'Heartfelt remorse' for Korean suffering" By Sohn Jie-Ae, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2001.

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• I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.

  Daniel J. Evans

  War, Navy, Korean War

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• 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

  Motivation, Kindness, Inspiration

  "Why I fled North Korea" By Hyeonseo Lee, www.cnn.com. April 14, 2013.

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• 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.

  Niall Ferguson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Average

  "The 6 killer apps of prosperity". Ted conference, www.ted.com. 2011.

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• North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody who’s escaped a totalitarian country to live in the free world. Defectors have to rediscover who they are in a world that offers endless possibilities. Choosing where to live, what to do, even which clothes to put on in the morning is tough enough for those of us accustomed to making choices; it can be utterly paralyzing for people who’ve had decisions made for them by the state their entire lives.

  Barbara Demick

  Country, Morning, Clothes

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• A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends. The soldier clipped a few nails, admired the sharp, clean edges, and marveled at the mechanics of this simple item. Then he realized with a sinking heart: If North Korea couldn’t make such a fine nail clipper, how could it compete with American weapons?

  Barbara Demick

  Heart, Simple, Korea

  Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.168, Granta

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