Best Korean Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I'm Korean American. I speak Korean, but it's not something that was on my vision board if I'm going to do a movie that is almost exclusively in Korean.”

“For Koreans to get into something, there needs to be a Korean star in that sport, and I used to dream some day that star could be me.”

“Everyone knows 'The Korean Zombie.'”

“The North Korean government are out to get me.”

“I do think sometimes, I wonder is it true that every life is equal in this world? Do we care about North Korean lives?”

“Whenever I write my music, it's always been in English first and then I take it into Korean.”

“I'm active on social media because that's such a big reason why K-pop and Korean music performs the way it does.”

“The United States is deeply concerned about the vulnerability of the North Korean people to a coronavirus outbreak.”

“When I perform in another country. The local people there sing along to my song in Korean.”

“People think that being Korean is all one thing.”

“I got into modeling first, then acting came along pretty soon, and I landed my first role in a Korean drama without education, without any acting experience whatsoever.”

“I'm not sure if it's just my pride, but I think I was able to bring out a different vibe as a Korean in Hollywood where there are many Korean Americans.”

“I kept saying during practice at Korean Top Team that I'm going to do the twister in the UFC some day.”

“There are a lot of Korean films that will show marital strife, but I'm not sure I've seen so many that will show it in the interest of showing a real marriage - one that ultimately succeeds.”

“I was used to always having a stack of Korean television VHS tapes growing up.”

“It's so wild to be able to say that I can do shows in front of thousands of people and have them sing my songs in Korean and in English - that is wild to me.”

“What works in the States doesn't easily translate to the Korean market.”

“Korean audiences are amazing, they really love the music.”

“My husband is half Korean.”

“I like to go to a Korean salon.”

“I want to show the world how good Korean players are by playing well in the top flight.”

“Culturally, I'm not 100 percent Korean. I'm very mixed and very open.”

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

“Overall, Korean pop serves as the foundation of my musical upbringing. As a result, the melodies that I create just exude that type of vibe.”

“My life is not only mine. I am telling the story of all North Korean people; it is my responsibility to tell it.”

“I go to the Korean spa when the kids go to bed. It's like I turn my brain off.”

“My mom passed away when I was 4 years old, and she came from a very conservative Korean background. I feel like my life would've been incredibly different had she still been alive.”

“I happen to have an obsession with Korean food.”

“To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.”

“My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.”

“In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.”

“Most people in the country didn't - and might still not - know about how powerful the United States is. They think North Korean weapons are the best in the world, and they're very proud of them. They believe they can protect the country from anyone.”

“Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.”

“Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.”

“If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl.”

“I will bring more Korean dance moves and Korean songs overseas.”

“I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean.”

“I want to help promote Korean music around the world.”

“You don't have to understand Korean to understand the music, the visuals, the vibe.”

“I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.”

“North Korean defectors can usually tell when other defectors are lying about their past.”

“In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.”

“I didn't have much of a taste for Korean food growing up: I was over the moon about Mexican food.”

“Head and shoulders, the No. 1 guy that I would love to get in there with would be 'The Korean Zombie.' I would love throw down with 'The Zombie.'”

“A lot of people got to know me through Korean TV.”

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

“Who would imagine, at Coachella, thousands of people singing in Korean?”

“I will do whatever it takes to help settle peace on the Korean Peninsula.”

“My dream role would be to play a Korean hero in a Hollywood superhero movie.”

“The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism.”

“Why should Americans on the DMZ be among the first to die in a second Korean War? Should the North attack the South, could we not honor our treaty obligations with air and naval power offshore?”

“40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.”

“In Korean, my lyrics are witty and have twists. But translated into English, it doesn't come over. I've tried writing in English, just for me, but it doesn't work. I've got to know everything about a culture, and I don't.”

“We must work together to inspire and support the next generation of Korean American leaders.”

“I am a veteran of the Korean War.”

“I wanted to show North Korean people that they have hope, and they can be free someday, like myself.”

“I know lots of Korean players, Heung-Min Son from Tottenham Hotspur of course, there are also lots in the Bundesliga. They have a great mentality and are very quick.”

“In Korean, the word 'future' is made up of two parts. The first part means 'not,' and the second means 'to come.' In that sense, 'future' means something that will not come. This is to say the future is now, and our now is us living our future.”

“I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.”

“We will use a resource till we realise that the resource is not providing enough for us anymore. And that's with everything in life. Be it Korean films or anything else.”

“The Korean taco was a phenomenon... It just came out of us. We didn't really think about it.”

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

“I felt like, I need to do English music; I speak better English than I do Korean. I think the fans enjoy it as well, so let's start making music in English.”

“Jennie would speak English to me, and Jisoo helped me out with my Korean.”

“I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.”

“Most of my acting has been for fantasy-based shows like 'A Korean Odyssey.' But for 'Vagabond,' it is totally different.”

“I speak a lot of different languages. But I'm not pro. I'm not pro, pro, pro at it. I speak English, I speak Mandarin, I speak Cantonese, I speak Shanghainese, and I speak Korean.”

“We've got so much Korean culture and so much Western culture in us.”

“As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.”

“We are Korean, so obviously they call our music K-pop. But we never thought of our music as K-pop. Our music is just our music.”

“My daughter likes Korean drama more than I do.”