Pop culture Quote by Euny Hong

America is very far away from Korea, so we were very impressed that people knew K-pop, let alone liked it!

— Jeongyeon

“Koreans are better at packaging and marketing. Look at Samsung, for example. With K-pop, the songwriters are not Korean. They’re European. The people who…

— Euny Hong

“Then one of them asked why Japanese kids try to ape American kids? The clothes, the rap music, the skateboards, the hair. I wanted…

— David Mitchell

“The image of Japan that obsesses otaku is in fact no more than a U.S. produced imitation.”

— Hiroki Azuma

It's amazing that K-pop is spreading around the world as a culture in itself.

— Rose

When I was first writing about Japan, it was at the peak of the Bubble. Bubble popped, but they kept on going. Japanese street…

— William Gibson

Korean-Americans, Asian-Americans are so unbelievably underrepresented in the U.S. entertainment and media industries and I don't think we are given a real shot.

— Eric Nam

We just made music that we liked and that people liked in Korea, and then people outside of Korea began to like it -…

— Jin

In Korea, I'm not a K-pop artist, I'm just an artist.

— Eric Nam

For years now, we've been hearing about how China is the great copycat nation, the manufacturer of designs drawn up in other countries, and…

— Adam Lashinsky

“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

More than Korean films and series, technology helped us share our culture.

— Hyun Bin