Quotes About Culture

I have two aunts and three cousins in Korea as well.

When I came to Korea for the first time, I couldn't understand the language.

I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday.

My grandmother raised me when I was little. I was born here, and my parents are immigrants; they needed someone to help take care of me because they were working a lot, so my grandmother came from Korea. So I'm very close with my grandmother, and I keep in touch with her a lot.

'The King of Masked Singer,' as they call it in Korea, it's the most popular show in Korea, and it's my mom's favorite show.

I go a lot to Korea and Japan.

We have debuted in Japan and Korea, but we also really want to make songs in other languages for global fans if there is an opportunity.

America is very far away from Korea, so we were very impressed that people knew K-pop, let alone liked it!

In the States I might be an Asian face, look different from everyone else in TV and in music, but in Korea I look like everybody else, in Asia I look like everybody else.

Anybody who loves music in Korea would love to go to Coachella, as like a dream wish.

I lived in Korea when I was young, so it was great to be back, close to my family.

When I'm in America, everyone thinks of me as the Asian girl. When I go to Korea, everyone thinks of me as an American.

I am a big fan of Korean food.

I like lots of Korean music that most people have probably never heard of. I also enjoy hip hop.

I hope the entire Korean culture like films can be enjoyed by many others.

I felt like, I need to do English music; I speak better English than I do Korean. I think the fans enjoy it as well, so let's start making music in English.

I grew up in so much church: English-speaking church, Korean church.

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.

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

Korean films have always been distributed to international audiences as arthouse films.

I guess the difference between the Korean hip-hop scene and the American hip-hop scene is that in the American hip-hop scene, you know, they have their Jay-Zs. They can become conglomerates through hip-hop. In Korea, it doesn't happen.

I like Korean employees, and I like Korean tenants.

They gave me 18 experiments to complete in my 10 days in the ISS. That's a lot. Everyone told me I didn't have to complete all of them, that it wasn't expected of me. But I knew everyone was watching me, so I gave up meals and sleep and completed all 18 experiments. It's a very Korean thing to do.

I've found that one's language abilities, especially for Korean kids like me, get frozen at the age you immigrated. So I've always associated Korea with being a child and being infantilized through my inability to speak.