People would call me Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan or whatever popular martial artist there was at that time. I also remember the other kids at the lunch table freaking out when I brought in Korean food.
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.
My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.
The anti-Japanese resistance was as familiar a theme in North Korean cinema as cowboys and Indians was in early Hollywood.
In Toronto and Los Angeles, too, there are a lot of Koreans – Koreatown, Korean markets. I feel like I’m at home and very comfortable.
I taught myself English. My English teacher was the sitcom ‘Friends.’ Back in the days when I was, like, 15, 14, it was like a syndrome for Korean parents to make their kids watch ‘Friends.’ I thought I was a victim at that time, but now I’m the lucky one.
I use Mandarin, Korean and English on a daily basis and usually only use Cantonese when I’m speaking with my relatives. I don’t think it’s very difficult for me to switch between each language because I’ve been doing it for so long.
The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.
I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.
I dreamed of being a professional skater once. I wanted to be a Korean Olympic skater, but I wasn’t good enough, so I quit.
Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a United Nations operation.
I’m a huge fan of the Korean attitude toward service and infrastructure, which is shaped by a preference for speed and efficiency, values I truly yearn for in the US.
You don’t have to understand Korean to understand the music, the visuals, the vibe.
I played the 1980 UEFA Cup final for Borussia Monchengladbach against Eintracht Frankfurt, who had the legendary South Korean Cha Bum-kun as their forward. He was the face of Frankfurt then. He had pace, great technique, was a great dribbler, and scored goals. And most importantly, he was the ultimate team man.
The U.S. military was segregated ’til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.
South Korea and the U.S. share common interests with regard to the North Korean nuclear issue, so I promise that South Korea will fully consult with the U.S. on the deployment of THAAD.
I like lots of Korean music that most people have probably never heard of. I also enjoy hip hop.
Western ghosts are evil, but Korean ghosts are about making peace. That is part of our Korean psyche.
North Korean defectors who speak out against the regime always feel nervous. We never know what the North Korean government is planning. It’s really difficult for us to show our faces and speak out, but we feel obligated to do something to inform people about the ongoing tragedy inside North Korea.
In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.
I’ve thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I’m supposed to be, what’s expected. Being Korean, that’s a particularly charged question. Is your duty to your culture or to your parent? Is your life your own, or the second half of your parents’ life? Who owns your life?
It is our Party’s unshakeable stand to prevent a new war from breaking out on the Korean peninsula and accelerate economic construction in a peaceful environment, thus resolving at an early date the problems related with the people’s livelihood.
As an A-10 squadron commander in the Air Force, I was required to be ready to deploy my 24 Warthogs and team anywhere in the world within 24 hours, including the Korean Peninsula.
Before Kim Jong Il died, it wasn’t like one day Kim Jong Un took over. Kim Jong Il made sure his son was known to the North Korean people and it was clear that he was the next heir. He prepared him for at least three years beforehand.
I can make chicken curry, rice, kheema… I am a foodie and enjoy varied cuisines. My favourites are Korean and Japanese.
Only in space did I realize how lucky I am to be Korean. Only in Korea could I have gone to space before turning 30 years old.
Honestly, Korean beauty standards are harsh. People are even putting pressure on non-celebrities to be super skinny, and the standards of thinness are just getting worse.
I hate the Chinese government. If you do not want to embrace North Korean defectors in your country, I understand. But we have a country where we can seek asylum. So please, let us freely pass through. Why are you doing your best to try and catch defectors?
I happen to have an obsession with Korean food.
My favourite Korean food is delicious black five-layered pork belly, cooked over a charcoal grill. And Jeju chocolate, in citrus fruits and green tea flavour, which is famous throughout Korea.
When I meet fans who relate to Korean films and dramas even though they don’t understand the language or the culture, and when they talk about studying Korean and traveling to Korea because of those films and dramas, I think to myself that this is the true force of the Hallyu wave.
I will keep the promise I made to you to open a new era on the Korean peninsula, based on strong security and trust-based diplomacy.
I’m sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.
In elementary school, I identified more with my Asian side. I had a lot of Korean friends, and then, once middle school hit, it was a little more diverse.
I grew up in so much church: English-speaking church, Korean church.
While immensely beneficial to Seoul, is this U.S. guarantee to fight Korean War II, 64 years after the first, wise? Russia, China and Japan retain the freedom to decide whether and how to react, should war break out. Why do we not?
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.
All Korean food is not just one thing.
We probably could more successfully resolve the North Korean nuclear threat through game-theoretic reasoning. We could successfully resolve what American leaders seem to perceive as an Iranian nuclear threat through game-theoretic reasoning.
When Dad looked at football players, he would take them in his own image. That’s what he grew up around; that’s what he was when he was a master sergeant in the Korean War. That’s what I took, and that’s what I want on my football team.
I will bring more Korean dance moves and Korean songs overseas.
With a book called ‘Keeping Score,’ I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn’t know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that.
When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.
A military career offers the stability many South Korean women crave.
When I go to Korea and they say, ‘Sing like a Korean person,’ I can’t do it. I didn’t grow up with that sound.
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.
I like Korean employees, and I like Korean tenants.
Whenever I write my music, it’s always been in English first and then I take it into Korean.
Growing up where I was, there were no Asians, no minorities, and there was always something to remind me of what I’m not. And when I go to Korea it’s the same thing. I’m constantly reminded that I’m not Korean.
I do have love for Japan. At the same time, I have a complex relationship with Japan because I’m Korean. But I think it shows the strength of a country when you can talk about the past transparently.
As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.
I want to show the world how good Korean players are by playing well in the top flight.
I was a mama’s girl. So when I had to go to Korea without mom, I felt that I had to take care of myself now. I was 14, such a kid. I didn’t speak any Korean. I only knew how to say ‘hello,’ so it really was a new start.
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.
My concern is: How on earth is anything more urgent than the lives of people in North Korean concentration camps?
For a while, I was feeling like I was always playing characters that weren’t specifically Korean or specifically Asian, even – that they were characters who were originally written white, and then they would cast me. And I used to consider that a badge of honor because that meant I had avoided stereotypes.
Harry Truman’s decision to fire Douglas MacArthur at the height of the Korean War in April 1951 shocked the American political system and astonished the world. Much of the world didn’t realize the president had the power to fire a five-star general; much of America didn’t realize Truman had the nerve.
