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Quotes About Korean

I used play Gonggi Nori, which is played with 5 small stones. It is so fun to play!
~ Dahyun
'Starcraft' was never designed to support multi-byte languages. In order to support more complicated languages like Korean or Chinese, you need two bytes of storage and 'Starcraft' only had one byte.
~ Michael Morhaime
Most of my acting has been for fantasy-based shows like 'A Korean Odyssey.' But for 'Vagabond,' it is totally different.
~ Lee Seung-gi
In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.
~ Bong Joon-ho
So Hosaka's built a regular little neurosurgery and staffed it with three hotshots. Two of them are company men, the third's a Korean who knows black medicine from both ends.
~ William Gibson
Why did Park Chung-Hee launch his political career in 1961 by lambasting Korean history? Why did he follow up two years later by saying, "Our five thousand years of history was a continuation of degeneration, crudity, and stagnation" and "We should set ablaze all our history that was more like a storehouse of evil"?
~ Chong-Sik Lee
You may discover that a certain sequence of letters in your autosomal DNA is typically found in someone with Finnish heritage or Korean ancestry. Only a few years ago the world of science was turned upside down when it was discovered that in ancient times two nonhuman species contributed to the human genome.
~ Christine Kenneally
I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.
~ Tablo
It was officially known as Kwan-li-so Number 18. That meant Penal Labor Colony in Korean. It was a concentration camp. It was a gulag. It actually was hell, near the Taedong River in North Korea's P'yongan-namdo province.
~ David Baldacci
I was drafted during the Korean War.
~ Clint Eastwood
Korean Peninsula and stationed a governor-general in the city today known as Hanoi.
~ Unknown
The Japanese made a lot of new laws. One of the laws was that no Korean could be the boss of anything.
~ Linda Sue Park
I can make chicken curry, rice, kheema... I am a foodie and enjoy varied cuisines. My favourites are Korean and Japanese.
~ Dulquer Salmaan
When I was younger, Big Bang didn't go on many variety programs, so we used to try and plan many fun events for our concert, like drama parodies, which Korean fans enjoyed.
~ G-Dragon
South Korea's government and private industry have spent the last quarter-century collaborating to build this pop culture empire, in pursuit of a soft-power strategy that they've dubbed "Hallyu," or the "Korean Wave.
~ Unknown
As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.
~ Ban Ki-moon
I was born and raised in the suburbs of Atlanta, which as you can imagine, was not the most diverse place to grow up in as a Korean American.
~ Eric Nam
The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you're a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence.
~ David Sedaris
Douglas, you wouldn't by any chance know the Korean phrase for 'You have three minutes to surrender,' would you?" "Sampun inae? hangpokhae.
~ Unknown
What is enlightenment? In the Korean tradition of Tao, it is known a Mu-Ah (Mu means "No" or "Nothing" and Ah means "Me"). It is no-me-ness, or egoless-ness. It means realizing the true, unchanging nature of the person you happen to be.
~ Ilchi Lee
The best compliment we ever got about the show was from a Korean veteran who was unable to talk about his war experience with his wife until 'M*A*S*H.' While watching the show, he was able to lean over to his wife and say, 'See, honey, that's the way it was.'
~ Gary Burghoff
Overall, Korean pop serves as the foundation of my musical upbringing. As a result, the melodies that I create just exude that type of vibe.
~ G-Dragon
I'm not sure if it's just my pride, but I think I was able to bring out a different vibe as a Korean in Hollywood where there are many Korean Americans.
~ Claudia Kim
Songun is a proud tradition of the Korean revolution which was pioneered by Comrade Kim Il Sung and led by him and Comrade Kim Jong Il and the banner of victory and glory.
~ Kim Jong-un