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“The American public has been persistently told that the Korean people are a degenerate and contemptible nation, incapable of better things, intellectually inferior, and…

— Homer B. Hulbert

“South Korea knew that it was a poor country not long ago, and they had learned that defeating poverty was a national effort. Paying”

— Euny Hong

“It is also generally assumed that, despite this rancor, the ultimate reunification of North and South must be the dream of all Koreans. However,…

— Daniel Tudor

“North Koreans were indoctrinated from birth to believe that their lives were meaningless, that they existed only to serve the State, the Revolution, and…

— Max Brooks

“If our troubles were purely the result of US imperialism, why weren’t South Koreans starving too?”

— Masaji Ishikawa

“Finally, it was clear that the real innovation in Korea was not happening in the government or the public schools. It was happening in…

— Amanda Ripley

Koreans are ambitious, man. It means a lot to my parents that I do the work that I do and it has the visibility.

— Sandra Oh

“If North Koreans paused to contemplate the obvious inconsistencies and lies in what they were told, they would find themselves in a dangerous place.…

— Barbara Demick

“rigor mattered. Koreans understood that mastering difficult academic content was important. They didn’t take shortcuts, especially in math. They assumed that performance was mostly…

— Amanda Ripley

South Korea at the end of the Second World War had a very low level of literacy. But suddenly, like in Japan, they determined…

— Amartya Sen

“There is another, bleaker reason why Korea has little reason to fear that other countries will try to emulate the K-pop export model: the…

— Euny Hong

“You never really said anything about what you Koreans believe in" she said. "Staying out of trouble," I said.”

— Chang-rae Lee