Top 177 Korean Quotes

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.
Charles B. Rangel
I’d rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.
Tablo
Among Korean immigrants the majority tends to be Christian, because that was the way they immigrated to America – through the support network of churches. I grew up with faith being an important fabric of my life. That comes with my life in the South – it was just a given that you believe.
Lee Isaac Chung
For a North Korean watcher, seeing ‘The Interview’ is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.
Barbara Demick
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.
Masego
Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
Ed Royce
My daughter likes Korean drama more than I do.
Peng Liyuan
Actors, I think, are all the same. Both Korean actors and American actors are all very sensitive people, and they are all curious to know what the director thinks of them and how they are evaluated, and they try to satisfy the director. And they like it if you listen carefully to their opinions and accept them.
Park Chan-wook
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
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
In Hollywood, I was never restricted to just one Asian character. I’ve been cast as a Chinese, a Vietnamese, a Korean, a Japanese and a Cambodian.
Dante Basco
Wrestling has its own culture. Every culture – Japan, Samoan, Indian, Korean – has wrestling, and wrestling is a worldwide mix.
Shinsuke Nakamura
If you haven’t heard my story, my mom is full Korean, and my dad is Caucasian. Kids in kindergarten would make fun of me for being Asian, and when you’re that age, you don’t know really how to process that; the way you take that is, ‘Who I am isn’t good enough.’
Joanna Gaines
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.
Jim Yong Kim
South Koreans often don’t think of North Korean defectors as Korean. While we have been granted citizenship, the locals don’t consider us as South Korean citizens. We are often treated differently and viewed differently, even by people who care for us the most.
Park Yeon-mi
I am a big fan of Korean food.
Leo Sayer
We recognize that there have been acts in the past that are Asian or Korean who tried to go, ‘Hey, I’m a huge star in Korea, I’m a huge star in Asia so you guys need to respect me for being a huge star there.’ But I don’t know. As much as we may be big, we have to be very humble and start from the ground up in the States.
Eric Nam
There is no way to know for certain what accounts for North Korean decisionmaking, given how closed a country it is.
Richard N. Haass
There is no question that Korean footballers have the ability to play in Europe. The real challenge is whether they will be able to adapt to western culture.
Park Ji-sung
To be honest, I’m not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.
Chang-Rae Lee
I'm active on social media because that's such a big re

I’m active on social media because that’s such a big reason why K-pop and Korean music performs the way it does.
Eric Nam
How many Americans, for example, are aware of the fact that U.S. planes dropped on the Korean peninsula more bombs – 635,000 tons – and napalm – 32,557 tons – than during the entire Pacific campaign against the Japanese during World War II?
Mehdi Hasan
There’s this secret Korean taco/cupcake truck I go to. To find it, you have to bring a hard-boiled egg to this deli in Bushwick where they give you the address.
Kurt Braunohler
As a child, every North Korean is very happy. We were very happy because we learned horrible things about the outside world, like in America and Japan. We thought they were suffering; that’s why we were very happy… but in reality, we were living under fear.
Lee Hyeon-seo
We hope that the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates will help us to promote Seoul as a symbol of peace beyond war and division in order to attract global attention to peace on the Korean Peninsula.
Park Won-soon
Whenever democracy has fallen into a crisis, the Korean people have sprung up in rage.
Moon Jae-in
When we would go to all these different regions on tour, having people sing our songs in Korean is amazing. All these different parts of the world are giving us love, and we’re very grateful for that.
Rose
The endgame is peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula.
Lee Myung-bak
To compare the United States of America – the beacon of the free world – to the brutal North Korean dictatorship is as insulting as it is asinine.
Kayleigh McEnany
When I was sent the material for auditions for ‘Dramaworld,’ I didn’t know much about the international fandom surrounding Korean dramas.
Liv Hewson
I don’t think a lot of Korean people even make kimchi. My mom certainly didn’t, so it’s a very extra thing to do in the same way that I guess baking bread can be an even longer process that you’re unsure about for a long time.
Michelle Zauner
I was about nine years old when I first heard Wu-Tang’s ‘C.R.E.A.M.’ Before that, I didn’t know anything about rap or hip-hop. I was just into Korean pop.
G-Dragon
The United States is deeply concerned about the vulnerability of the North Korean people to a coronavirus outbreak.
Morgan Ortagus
What works in the States doesn’t easily translate to the Korean market.
Eric Nam
South Korea was able to build its national security thanks to the U.S., and the two nations will work together on the North Korean nuclear issue. However, I believe we need to be able to take the lead on matters in the Korean Peninsula as the country directly involved.
Moon Jae-in
Maybe it’s a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility – but it doesn’t help you in acting. For acting, humility isn’t the best thing. It’ll weaken your work.
Steven Yeun
The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men who were being called to serve were World War II veterans participating in Ready Reserve units.
J. Anthony Lukas
My wife will tell you it’s the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We’re not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say ‘sarang,’ which means love in Korean.
Daniel Dae Kim
During the 1990s, when India opened up to foreign investment, Japan was so mesmerised by the China opportunity that it chose to yield market space across a wide swathe of industries to South Korean competitors.
Sanjaya Baru
North Korean defectors can usually tell when other defectors are lying about their past.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Most of my acting has been for fantasy-based shows like ‘A Korean Odyssey.’ But for ‘Vagabond,’ it is totally different.
Lee Seung-gi
The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
In Korean, the word ‘future’ is made up of two parts. The first part means ‘not,’ and the second means ‘to come.’ In that sense, ‘future’ means something that will not come. This is to say the future is now, and our now is us living our future.
RM
Korean audiences are amazing. The fans scream so loud, and that really surprises skaters when they first perform in my shows.
Kim Yuna
In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.
Noah Feldman
There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players.
Inbee Park
No one shall take a military action on the Korean Peninsula without South Korean consent.
Moon Jae-in
My father was born on Christmas Day in 1934. He grew up in what is now part of North Korea. When the Korean War began, my father was 16, and he found passage on an American refugee ship,thinking he’d be gone for just a few days, but he never saw his mother or his sister again.
Min Jin Lee
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.
John Cho
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.
Brooke Shields
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.
Charles B. Rangel
Those who like 2PM will be able to understand Korean cu

Those who like 2PM will be able to understand Korean culture more, and their knowledge may be passed down to their children and grandchildren.
Ok Taec-yeon
Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.
Ben Stein
We can’t afford to lose all that we’ve built from the ashes of the Korean War.
Moon Jae-in