Korean Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Korea, People, Inspire

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• When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury

  Lee Myung-bak

  War, Luxury, Feet

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• The endgame is peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula.

  Lee Myung-bak

  Peaceful, Peninsulas, Endgame

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• 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

  Growing Up, Korean Food, Limits

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• With Albright at the helm of the State Department, Osama bin Laden ran wild throughout the Middle East, the North Koreans began feverishly building nukes under her nose, and we staged a pre-emptive attack solely for purposes of regime change based on false information presented to the American people by Albright about a world leader who was not an imminent threat to the United States. Slobodan Milosevic wasn't even a latent, long-term, hypothetical threat.

  Ann Coulter

  Long, People, Leader

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• 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

  War, Criticism, Troops

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• 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.

  James Fallows

  Real, War, Years

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• The poor Americans are so busy defending the rights of Hindus in Pakistan, Moslems in India, Jews in Palestine, Koreans in Japan, Italians in Yugoslavia and Hungarians in Czechoslovakia that they simply cannot give a thought to Negroes in the United States.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Rights

  George Mikes (1959). “How to scrape skies: the United States explored, rediscovered and explained”

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• East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century.

  William C. Kirby

  War, Thinking, East

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• Whether or not it is ultimately the best of all conceivable scripts for Korean, Hangeul must unquestionably rank as one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind.

  Geoffrey Sampson

  Achievement, Intellectual, Scripts

  "Fifty Wonders of Korea Volume 1: Culture and Art". Book by Korean Spirit and Culture Promotion Project, 2007.

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• People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in their own state. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time when South Koreans were questioning the very legitimacy of their republic.

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Korea, People, Republic

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• 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

  Girl, Dream, Stars

  "Interview with Megan Lee of Make It Pop!". GLITTER interview, glittermagrocks.com.

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• One day is enough to master reading in Korean. Hangeul is a very scientific and convenient alphabet system for communication.

  J.M.G. Le Clézio

  Communication, Reading, One Day

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• North Korea is a necrocracy, or a mauselocracy or a thanatocracy in which the one [Kim Il-sung] is diffused into being with the other [Kim Jong Il], and where both of them are said to have had miraculous births attended by miraculous phenomena such as, for example, birds singing in Korean, when they were born.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Korea, Bird, Singing

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Clever, Miracle, Incentives

  Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism”, Bloomsbury Press

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• Glory to the heroic soldiers of the Korean People's Army!

  Kim Jong Il

  Army, People, Soldier

  Said at a 1992 military parade. "Kim Jong-Il: Wine, Women and Bombs" by Justin McCurry, www.theguardian.com. July 09, 2006.

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

  Amanda Ripley

  Parent, Saws, Cheerleader

  Amanda Ripley (2013). “The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• The biggest thing I don’t like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?

  John Rocker

  Country, New York, Block

  "At Full Blast Shooting outrageously from the lip, Braves closer John Rocker bangs away at his favorite targets: the Mets, their fans, their city and just about everyone in it". Interview with Jeff Pearlman, www.si.com. December 27, 1999.

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• North Koreans are irrational to some extent, but I don't think they're totally irrational. I think they watch American cable channels. I think they watch the European cable channels. I think they, their decision makers keep up more than we know. And I think they want us to think they're a little crazy.

  William J. Clinton

  Crazy, Thinking, Decision

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Ko Un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of Mind. Mind is sometimes registered in Buddhist terms - Buddhist practice being part of Ko Un's background. Ko Un writes spare, short-line lyrics direct to the point, but often intricate in both wit and meaning. Ko Un has now traveled worldwide and is not only a major spokesman for all Korean culture, but a voice for Planet Earth Watershed as well.

  Gary Snyder

  Buddhist, Writing, Creativity

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• President Bush said that American workers will need new skills to get the new jobs in the 21st century. Some of the skills they're going to need are Spanish, Chinese, Korean, because that's where the jobs went. Who better than Bush as an example of what can happen when you take a job without any training.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Skills, Chinese

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• People say to us, look, it may well be the case that there are fewer wars and fewer genocides, but surely more people are being killed. But when we look at this, the number of people killed in wars involving a state every year, all the wars, and you can see there's a high point, that's the Korean war, and it keeps on going down and down and down. If you look at the average number of people killed per conflict per year, it goes from 37-thousand in 1950 to just 600 in 2002.

  Andrew Mack

  War, Average, Years

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• 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

  Country, Order, Korea

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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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• This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon, all eulogized by our African American President.

  Mark Shields

  Gay, College, White

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