"We got used to dividing the world into industrialized countries and developing countries – rich and poor. However, fo…"

"[A]t the time Japan annexed Korea in 1910, the actual conditions of life in the peninsula were extremely bad. This wa…"

"The magnificence of the courage and fortitude of the Korean people defies description. They have chosen to risk death…"

"Koreans in general are very generous about misrepresentations when it’s another Korean doing the misrepresenting."

"South Korean nationalism is something quite different from the patriotism toward the state that Americans feel. Ident…"

"In Germany, it's, let's say it's 5:59 and you're heading for the bakery or whatever and it's due to close at 6. The G…"

"Koreans are wonderfully tolerant of a foreigner with differing views when the discussion is in Korean, and no foreign…"

"I see aspiring K-Pop singers crying on TV because they have to rehearse a lot. But they say northern Koreans were a t…"

"If Descartes had been Korean, he would have said: "I am in charge, therefore I am.""

"Koreans are an impatient people and yearn to be as good as they imagine advanced peoples to be. But they are too hard…"