Korean Quotations

If I knew how to operate a DVR, you'd find episodes of 'The Tavis Smiley Show,' 'Democracy Now!' and lots of stuff from TV Land. What you can find now on my Hulu account are Korean soap operas, 'Grey's Anatomy' and films from the Criterion collection.

Seen from the United States or Europe, Iran's nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.

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.

A lot of people are very interested that a Korean director has made a western. But when I look at the reactions of the audience, I realise the points at which people laugh are the same for a Korean audience and an international audience.

I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.

There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do.

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.

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.

When I was reading books for 'Seesaw Girl,' I came across several references to the fact that in the 11th and 12th centuries, Korean pottery was considered the finest in the world. I liked that - the idea of a little tiny country being the best at something.

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

I went home one night and told my dad that an older kid was picking on me. My Dad, a Korean War vet and a Chicago cop for 30 years, told me, 'You better pick up a brick and hit him in the head.' That's when I thought, 'Wow, I'm going to have to start dealing with things in a different way.'

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

I wasn't sure if I wanted to put that out there so blatantly, so that before you listen to me you know that I'm Asian. But I thought it was sort of cool to embrace the Korean half of me, which I love.

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

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?

Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him I would stay in Government, be honored to, but not with the Air Force.

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

Even North Korean people who are not necessarily happy with economic policies are still loyal to the state itself. It's a military-first state, so whether it does very well on the economic front or not, is not central to public support for it.

The endgame is peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula.

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.

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.

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.

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

I've always been a fan of Korean cinema but never really pursued it, as I wanted to pave my way here in the States. I figured, once I established myself here, Korea might take notice. And it did.

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

In 2013, Samsung accounted for about 20 percent of South Korea's total business profits. Samsung Electronics, just one of scores of subsidiaries, accounts for close to 15 percent of the total shares in the South Korean stock market. But you don't need to know these figures to get a feel for Samsung's hold on the country.

The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.

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.'

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

There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players.

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

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

Wherever Koreans are, they set up a church,

It's an open secret: Even now, in the 21st century, Korean executives often consult spiritual advisers before making major business decisions - decisions that can affect their employees around the world.

In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.

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

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.

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.

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

A military career offers the stability many South Korean women crave.

Lionsgate and Lorenzo di Bonaventura saw my Korean Western-style film, 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird,' and probably felt that I would be right for 'The Last Stand,' which could be classified as a modern Western.

I love getting baths and going to the Korean spas and getting pummeled and scrubbed, and its so hot in the sauna you can't even stand it. I have to do things in a pretty extreme way to calm down. So a Swedish massage is not going to do it! I need to know that they're in there with their thumbs and moving stuff around.

To honor the legacy of veterans and the democratic principles they fought for, I am glad that I introduced the Korean War Veterans Recognition Act which was enacted in 2009.

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

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.

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?'

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

My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen his brothers or sisters or parents since then. And he died some time ago, but never saw any of his relatives. My mother was a refugee in war-torn Korea.

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.

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

I happen to have an obsession with Korean food.

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

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

I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him.

When I made him go to culture camps, he hated it. And today, that's why he does such a good job at the Korean cultural camps (where he's an aide) because he can relate to the kids who don't want to be there. He knows what's in their hearts.

Nobody has ever called Shea Stadium a cathedral. In style, it was more like the old warehouse or outdated movie theater that Korean worshippers have transformed into a church in the borough of Queens. Not a cathedral - but a place where people go to be fulfilled, nonetheless.

... I have heard that the North Korean side also expressed views and questions of their own.

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.

Mother also loved Asian art, but she preferred the ceramics and sculpture of earlier Chinese and Korean dynasties, as well as Buddhist art.

shared goal -- a Korean peninsula that is free of nuclear weapons.

Solana Beach didn't exist as a city during World War I, and we didn't lose any people during the Korean War.

Since Chinese firms are 10 times bigger in size than their Korean or Japanese counterparts, they should explore our market by investing here and making best use of our skilled workforce.

The price of gold was fixed at $35 an ounce in 1934, but by the time the U.S. got through the Korean War, the Vietnam war, with all the associated secular inflation, the price level had gone up nearly three times.

All of which suggested literary translation, and Korean seemed a good bet - barely anything available in English, yet it was a modern, developed country, so the work had to be out there, plus the rarity would make it both easier to secure a student grant and more of a niche when it came to work.

I am sure you have seen for yourselves and sensed how the Korean people feel towards the United States here in our country.

For the United States this new North Korean nuclear weapons program is an overriding concern that must be resolved swiftly and visibly if we are to move forward with the DPRK (North Korea),

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

I felt I would have the bronze medal. I felt the Korean team did something.

China has always stood firmly in maintaining peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and will actively propel parties concerned to solve the nuclear issue through peaceful dialogue,

China hopes all sides will deepen their discussions based on previously reached agreements, including to resolve the crisis peacefully through dialogue and reaching the final goal of a nuclear freed Korean Peninsula.

China's major trading partners are the United States, the euro land, Japan, Korea, etc., and naturally, U.S. dollar, euro, Japanese yen and Korean won become major currencies of the basket.

BDA was designated because its facilitation of North Korean illicit financial activity presents an unacceptable risk to the U.S. financial system.

We talk about diversity so much, and so many times it's so inorganic in terms of the way it's used. I feel that example and the Korean couple on Lost are some of the best demonstrations of how incredibly compelling characters can even cross over the language barrier. I think in the diverse culture we live in that's far more truthful than some of the stuff we have on.

I am hopeful and really confident that we are at a turning point in our ability to bring North Korean refugees here.

He was a rare one: only 5 feet 7 inches tall, a lawyer and a combat veteran of the Korean War as a Marine officer. Eddie came from Washington in a trade in 1960 and ran the team in the first years while Don Meredith was learning. He was such a fantastic ball handler that even with sorry protection and the defensive line crashing in on him he threw a lot of beautiful long passes. The ball would fly out of the crowd like a mortar shell and sail 50 yards downfield. Eddie did everything by the numbers. If the receiver wasn't there, we knew whose fault it was.

His pronunciation was fantastic. I was going around, saying maybe he should be the one speaking Korean and I'll speak English and say, 'Dude,' a lot.

There is a language barrier. My Korean workers do not speak Spanish or English. My Latino workers do not speak English or Korean.

I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living here in Studio City, Ventura Blvd. is the Mecca of sushi restaurants. What you thought was so exotic is just run of the mill.

Regarding exports of North Korean missile technology, export of technology is trade and if there are buyers, we'll sell.

Our objective, ... is to help relieve the suffering of the North Korean people, despite our concerns about the North Korean government's policies.

Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military.

I see a lot of Hispanic workers being promoted by Korean business owners. This morning, I joked with my Latino workers that I only saw two of them marching.

Korea is a significant market for American semiconductor producers -- in 2005, the Korean semiconductor market was approximately $4.5 billion.

Korean dry cleaners need Korean media to grow their businesses.

Korean immigration to Mexico in the spring of 1905 led directly to the Japanese takeover of Korea six months later.

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.

Korean yards can concentrate on high-end products like LNG carriers. China's yards are coming from a fairly low productivity base.

I wrote a song called walls with my husband, Louis Nelson, who designed the new Korean Veteran's Memorial Wall on the Mall in Washington, D.C.

It is no surprise nations like South Korea are beginning to hedge their bets in light of the North Korean nuclear weapons advances.

Like nuclear conflicts on the Korean Peninsula or an earthquake in Tokyo, ... the more focus on the issue and safeguards taken to prevent it, the better the chance that the worst fears are not realized.

Our focus remains on diplomatic efforts to get six-party talks under way as a means of reaching the goal of a dismantlement of the North Korean program and a denuclearized Korean Peninsula.

I worked hard and exerted efforts thinking Daewoo's growth and development were contributing to the national economy, ... I apologize for causing worry to the Korean people through the Daewoo incident.

I think the pressures are culminating in the foreign exchange market. With the pressures easing back, the Korean won is expected to shed some value against the U.S. dollar in the coming months.

It is only the reverses of the Korean war that have made the Western powers realise that the Eastern nations can and do produce good soldiers.

It is something that we all wish for; to see a joint Korean team participating at the Games, like the situation we had with the united German team several years ago.

We are committed to the maintenance of peace and stability on the peninsula and support continuation of the six-party talks and look forward to concrete and verifiable progress toward a complete and permanent nuclear weapons-free Korean peninsula.

We have to work together with our allies around the world -- especially the Japanese, the South Koreans, the Russians and the Chinese -- to demonstrate that North Korea's actions are inappropriate, ... We don't want the Korean Peninsula to have any nuclear weapons on it.

I was really bothered by it. I grew up around many Asian cultures, Korean one of them. A lot of my best friends were Korean growing up. I just didn't understand. Later on I realized that was built up by certain people and that was directed at me, negative energy from other things, not even resulting around the sport, but around politics, using me to stand on the pedestal as the anti-American sentiment.

We have our inspectors still on the ground, still monitoring the freeze of North Korean nuclear activities.

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