Ambitious Quote by Sandra Oh

I am an ambitious person. In the West, being ambitious isn't a bad thing. You work hard and you have a purpose in life.…

— Park Yeon-mi

You're trying to grow up, and you don't want to be like your parents, and that gets mixed up with being Korean... They brought…

— John Cho

I think growing up, I didn't ever attempt to define my Koreanness. It was just this intrinsic part of me.

— Michelle Zauner

“Even South Koreans themselves struggle mightily to fit into their own success-obsessed, status-conscious, education-crazed culture.”

— Blaine Harden

My parents worked and sold and hustled; they were gone from the morning, and I pretty much took care of myself. But in a…

— Roy Choi

Korean people, including me, want to go faster and faster - in music, in fashion, in art, too.

— G-Dragon

People think that being Korean is all one thing.

— Roy Choi

“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

Being the first-ever non-Korean artist at YG, it feels as if I have much more responsibility.

— Lisa

Living in Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in…

— Kim Hyesoon

“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

My parents are small business owners, and the Korean community, like a lot of immigrant communities, is very much owner-driven.

— Su-chin Pak