#korean

When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that. ↗

— Ang Lee

#asia #cold #cold war #course #extension

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#arabic #areas #behind #chinese #combined

I'm a bit jealous. Until two days ago someone told me I am the most famous Korean in the world. ↗

— PSY

#am #bit #days #famous #i

There's a lot of variety of musicians in Korea. I cannot say they are the best in the world, but I can say that Korean artists are really dynamic artists, so I am going to show that from now on. ↗

— PSY

#artists #best #cannot #dynamic #going

Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam. ↗

— Ron Paul

#benefited #came #century #eisenhower #elected

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life. ↗

— John Pomfret

#american life #bosnian #chinese #experience #korean

The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#american #american people #among #been #korean

East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century. ↗

— William Kirby

#century #east #east asia #end #first

Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il. ↗

— Ed Royce

#bush #bush administration #end #indifference #kim

I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world. ↗

— Kim Y. Sam

#attention #beijing #caught #chinese #drew