Korean Quotes - Page 2

• In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Strong, Film, Tradition

  Interview with Brent Simon, www.ign.com. March 08, 2007.

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• In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Open Minded, Film, Industry

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• The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Mother, Strong, Children

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• There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Emotion, Film, Extremes

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• And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Two, Light, Korea

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• Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.

  Kim Jong-un

  War, Past, Records

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.

  Kim Young-sam

  Thinking, Issues, Korea

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• I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.

  Kim Young-sam

  Sorry, Two, Police

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• To Koreans on the other side, we care about your freedom.

  Kim Young-sam

  Care, Sides, Your Freedom

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• Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea.

  Rick Yune

  Korea, Interesting, Heritage

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  New York, War, Doctors

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• 40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.

  Tom Lantos

  Children, Growth, Suffering

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• Sarah Palin gave a speech in South Korea. Just what the Koreans needed: Two crazy dictators in fashionable lady's glasses.

  Conan O'Brien

  Crazy, Two, Glasses

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• To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Fiction, Littles, Honest

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• Alongside Han Kang, there's only one other author I've chosen to translate so far - Bae Suah. Her work is radical both stylistically and politically, influenced by her own translation practice (she's translated the likes of Kafka, Pessoa, and Sadeq Hedayat into Korean). Her language is simply extraordinary.

  Deborah Smith

  Practice, Likes, Bae

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I first came across her [Bae Suah] when I read some elderly male critic castigating her for 'doing violence to the Korean language', which of course was catnip to me, especially as I'd recently discovered Lispector doing pretty much the same to Portuguese.

  Deborah Smith

  Elderly, Violence, Firsts

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I've translated two of Bae's novels, A Greater Music and Recitation, which are coming from Open Letter and Deep Vellum in October and January respectively. A Greater Music is a semi-autobiographical book centred on a Korean writer moving to Berlin, learning to live and even write in a foreign language.

  Deborah Smith

  Book, Moving, Writing

  Source: thequietus.com

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• We need an effective American diplomacy that will marshall the resources of nations in the Asian Pacific Rim to put pressure on North Korea, on Kim Jong-un, to abandon his nuclear ambitions. It has to remain the policy of the United States of America, the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, plain and simple.

  Mike Pence

  Ambition, Simple, Korea

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Gaining trust is not difficult for me. I needed to gain the trust of the North Korean supervisors.

  Werner Herzog

  Gains, Supervisors, Difficult

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I read Nicholas Kristof columns. I think it was in September [2016] had he this piece look who is endorsing [Donald] Trump, who is behind him. It was the North Korean government, it was Islamic terrorists. It's the Klan. It's the American Nazi party. It seems very uncharitable to me. There was no room for people who are decent but economically beleaguered to maybe want to support him.

  Tucker Carlson

  Party, Islamic, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I don't notice any sympathy for them in [ Nicholas Kristof] column. If you're writing a column saying the people for Trump are Nazis and Klansman and North Korean dictators.

  Tucker Carlson

  Writing, People, Dictator

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace of the Korean people.

  Werner Herzog

  Volcanoes, Korea, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My dad was in the Korean War. He got shot seven times. He had seven bullet holes in him. And out of his troop of 35 guys, he was one of nine guys that came back. And when he came back from that he had seven kids in seven years.

  Ryan McGinley

  Dad, War, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I remember the Korean War very well. And I remember the soldiers who were POWs who supposedly were "brainwashed," quote, unquote, who gave in, so to speak. And when they came back, they were treated like pariahs and traitors.

  Martin Scorsese

  War, Soldier, Remember

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I remember when Langston Hughes used to write a column in black newspapers around this character Jesse B. Semple. He always used that as a voice, sometimes in comic ways, of having everyday people's voice come through this common folk hero, who was an ordinary working guy. He would talk about anything from police brutality to the Korean War. Those kinds of expression and identification are no longer prevalent in our popular culture.

  Danny Glover

  War, Hero, Character

  Source: progressive.org

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