Quotes About Culture

American culture is so open compared to Korean culture, which is really conservative.

Korean people, including me, want to go faster and faster - in music, in fashion, in art, too.

My full name's Jonathan Kimble, but my parents didn't want to call me either. So for a while, I went by Kim, which is a name for a girl or a Korean person.

It would be ridiculous for anyone to consider me the face of Korean art.

When I first debuted back in 2009, K-Pop was already starting to get bigger because of the Internet. And that's how I found it, because I'm not Korean.

My musical influences growing up were limited to Korean folk songs and hymns as I went to a Christian boarding school where I was not allowed to listen to secular music.

My husband is half Korean.

Whenever I write my music, it's always been in English first and then I take it into Korean.

I really think I cook good Korean food. I really do, just straight up.

People think that being Korean is all one thing.

Korean audiences are amazing, they really love the music.

I've always been attracted to something that's a little bit left - Korean R&B, South African hip-hop. I'm really curious about my homies back in Jamaica, what are they listening to? I'm always searching.

A lot of people got to know me through Korean TV.

After everything my parents were teaching us about Korean culture, about being respectful and all these things, you know, here came my grandmother, who is very crass and wanted to teach us how to gamble.

Those who like 2PM will be able to understand Korean culture more, and their knowledge may be passed down to their children and grandchildren.

More than Korean films and series, technology helped us share our culture.

I remember hearing my mom saying so many times we should never have left Korea. She would see the way that I was growing up and the fact that I was speaking English and not speaking Korean as well, and she would fear the things that we were forgetting.

Food in general is really important for any diaspora, and it's really important for Korean people. This was a connection my mom and I could always have together that made her feel like I was more hers.

I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.

I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.

Koreans are hilarious.

We grew up in rural Arkansas without any Koreans close by, and when I go to Korea feel out of place.

I wish there were more kung fu films. They are a part of our culture.

I went to Kuwait, Baghdad, you know all through Iraq. I went to Qatar, Afghanistan.