#korean

Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business. ↗

— David Halberstam

#korean-war #business

Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place? ↗

— Kim Young-ha

#introspection #kim #korea #korean #young-ha

I wonder if my father, given the chance, would have wished to go back to the time before he made all that money, when he just had one store and we rented a tiny apartment in Queens. He worked hard and had worries but he had a joy then that he never seemed to regain once the money started coming in. He might turn on the radio and dance cheek to cheek with my mother. He worked on his car himself, a used green Impala with carburetor trouble. They had lots of Korean friends that they met in church and then even in the street, and when they talked in public there was a shared sense of how lucky they were, to be in America but still have countrymen near. ↗

— Chang-rae Lee

#korean #change

People should eat warm foods,it'll give them warm heart.. ↗

— Dalja's spring

#food

I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him? ↗

— Mort Walker

#am #army #beetle #going #him

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. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#diplomacy #era #i #keep #korean

My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard. He taught me to love my country, and serve my country. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#become #biggest #could #country #father

National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#fore #koreans #me #national #partition

My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#adopted #before #born #grew #her

When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that. ↗

— Ang Lee

#asia #cold #cold war #course #extension