Dictatorship Quote by Kim Hyesoon

If you happen to live in Korea, you might always suffer from anger towards people in power, because of political and social problems. I…

— Kim Hyesoon

“Korea is often called the “Land of the Morning Calm.” It’s a country where you notice the filth and the smog on your first…

— Tucker Elliot

Whenever democracy has fallen into a crisis, the Korean people have sprung up in rage.

— Moon Jae-in

Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.

— Marilyn Monroe

“Stalin has died. The ardent heart of the great leader of progressive mankind has ceased to beat. This sad news has spread over Korean…

— Anonymous

It was very shocking for me to read newspapers that openly criticised the government in South Korea. That is impossible in North Korea and…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

We grew up in rural Arkansas without any Koreans close by, and when I go to Korea feel out of place.

— Lee Isaac Chung

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

Let's be clear: There is no doubt that the citizens of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea both fear and loathe the United States.…

— Mehdi Hasan

My family has been deeply affected by the split of Korea, which divided it in half, basically, before I was born. There's no way…

— Margaret Cho

Life is a horror for the Korean people. And I think isolating them further is going to make life more miserable.

— Robert Scheer

In North Korea, it was actually an oppressive regime and that's why I escaped with my life.

— Park Yeon-mi