Korean Quotes - Page 8

• The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.

  Aly Khan

  War, Important, Conflict

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• When I do an Asian character or an Asian voice I'm doing one because that's my heritage and my family and where I come from. My family is of Korean descent and specifically North Korean descent. So it makes sense for me to talk about that issue because it's the only weapon I have to somehow avenge my family and my history.

  Margaret Cho

  Character, Issues, Voice

  "Margaret Cho Has Gone 'PsyCHO': Talking Donald Trump, Surviving Rape & More". Interview with Kevin Fallon, www.thedailybeast.com. September 25, 2015.

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• 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.

  Margaret Cho

  Believe, Fairs, Hard

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• 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

  School, Army, Years

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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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• I used to do Korean classical music and started training to join an idol group after someone set me up an interview with my current agency. The common thing between Korean classical music and becoming a singer is that I get to go on stage which why I decided to get professional training for K-pop music without holding any bias.

  Kim Him-chan

  Agency, Idols, Training

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• Everybody wants to have sex - you don't have to have a baby when you're 16. You don't have to do drugs. I think our Sunday schools should be turned into Black history schools and computer schools on the weekend, just like Hebrew schools for Jewish people, or my Asian friends who send their kids to schools on the weekend to learn Chinese or Korean.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Baby, Sex, School

  "Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 21, 2013.

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• 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

  Children, Community, Black

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• I brought in two genius guys from Korea. Guys who did my favorite movies like Oldboy and The Man from Nowhere. It was fun working with them. Even though they don't speak Japanese and I don't speak Korean, I knew from day one we were speaking the same language because they love my work and I love theirs. We instantly connected. There was zero frustration.

  Ryuhei Kitamura

  Zero, Fun, Men

  Source: collider.com

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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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• The two-war strategy was a product of the cold war, when we had to have the ability to fight the Russians on the plains of Europe and fight the Chinese on the Korean peninsula at the same time. That costs an awful lot of money.

  Joe Klein

  War, Fighting, Europe

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. September 14, 2013.

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• 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

  Smart, Causes, South

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

  Henry Cho

  South

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• I love entertaining Korean people with traditional songs from Ecuador . It has been an exceptional, new experience for me to perform in Korea and I enjoyed so much.

  Jose Gonzalez

  Song, New Experiences, Korea

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• My pacifism came after I joined the army and was shipped over to Korea. There was a little one-room orphanage there called Song-do. There were 180 babies in there, and they were GI babies. The U.S. government would not acknowledge this, and the Korean government had nothing to do with them. They were living on a 100-pound bag of rice a month. Some of those kids, when they were old enough, would go out and shine shoes. They would show up at the gate of our compound to shine shoes, and you'd swear they were looking for their fathers.

  Utah Phillips

  Song, Baby, Father

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• We must work with the Australians, the South Koreans, the Japanese and the Filipinos to contain China. And then we must ask for their support and their help with North Korea. Because believe it or not, China is as concerned about Kim Jong-Un as we are.

  Carly Fiorina

  Believe, Korea, Support

  Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, University Students

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Girl, Korea, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

  Kim Hyesoon

  Son, Giving, Birth

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I became a poet, the Korean literary world expected women poets to sing passively of love. Naturally, this was not written anywhere, but this rule existed nonetheless. Consequently, I received plenty of serious criticism.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Criticism, World, Serious

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Real, Voice, Might

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society is based on both a politics and history that have been disguised as a solid society of solid male poems, a solid written language, fixed rules of how to write literature, and a narrative language.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Writing, Perspective, Literature

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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

  Country, Past, Korea

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

  Kim Hyesoon

  Feminism, Trends, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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

  Korea, Feminism, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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