I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.
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.
I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.
So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.
In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.
For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.
The North Koreans have gained, or bought, a lot of time through the six-party-talks framework to pursue their own agenda.
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.
People said things to me like "They're just animals. They're here for our use." I had a visceral reaction to that phrase, maybe because I was told countless times during my growing-up years that I was "just like an animal." I had suffered much of my ...
In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.
National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
If a Korean artist reaches to the top, we're all ready to stand up and applaud for him or her.
I'm Korean-American. Not Colombian. My parents are first-generation, and I'm like... in-between, because I moved over here when I was four or five.
I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.
I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.
Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.
I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.
Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.
My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.
