| 单词 | Korean |
| 例句 | At a Korean restaurant, he found a magazine that listed the names and addresses of several small churches. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Outside the camp, too, chronic shortages have removed rice from the daily diets of many North Koreans, especially those in the hostile classes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I told him how I didn’t know the subtle nuances or meanings of Korean names, even though I knew quite a few, that it would have been like naming someone purely by sound. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Over a three-month stay, defectors learn their rights under South Korean law and go on field trips to shopping centers, banks, and subway stations. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Outside of the Korean Peninsula, there’s no place easier than greater Los Angeles for a Korean to float around Without learning another language. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Some of the guerrillas were actual North Korean soldiers who crossed over to recruit, mostly kidnap, young South Korean men. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z People acted like it was the Fourth of July, and the Korean War had just been declared over. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z A Korean woman with a broom lingers outside a convenience store, and I smile at her but she sort of swats me away. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “The issue of Korean Air is not a matter of an individual company but a matter of the whole country,” he said. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Maybe a someone we Koreans were becoming, the latest brand of an American. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Korean families that have lived in Japan for several generations still find it difficult to acquire Japanese citizenship. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z South Korean soaps—which display the fast cars, opulent houses, and surging confidence of South Korea—are classified as “impure recorded visual materials” and are illegal to watch in North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The Taedong, as it flowed past Camp 14, was too wide and swift to freeze in the North Korean winter, which allowed dam construction to continue year round. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Shin left Beijing and took a 70-mile bus ride to Tianjin, a city of ten million people, where he tried again with Korean churches. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Over the years Soojin has taught me enough phrases of Korean that I understand when Soojin asks her grandfather if he wants her to get him anything to eat. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Nearly two million ethnic Koreans now live in China’s three northeast provinces, with the highest concentration in Jilin, which Shin entered when he crawled across the frozen river. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The crowd was much larger than we’d expected, an even mix of Koreans, blacks, Hispanics. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They were the first British prisoners to return home, almost three years since most of them had been trapped during the opening days of the Korean War. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A few of the characters look familiar, but I never learned to read or write Korean. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z The number of North Koreans seeking asylum in South Korea has increased nearly every year since 1995. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Korean is all you are,” he spits out. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z When intelligence agents were finished with Shin, he reported to Hanawon, which means “House of Unity” in Korean. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But Shin had only a name, and the South Korean government told him it had no information on that name. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Shin discovered a Korean family that was open, welcoming, and loving. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Aviation experts will tell you that Korean Air is now as safe as any airline in the world. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z A secret agreement on border security was signed between the two countries in the early 1960s, according to the South Korean government. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The attacks have killed hundreds of South Koreans, but they have yet to provoke the electorate into demanding that their government launch a major counterattack. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They wanted to know, at their office, why hadn’t I registered for the Korean War draft? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Out of respect he tries to speak as much Korean as he can, and I don’t let him know his rapid speech is variously lost on me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Korean food has to have perfect rice: not too dry, not too wet. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Audrey and I headed to our usual meeting spot by Heart & Seoul, the Korean BBQ food truck. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z “I think it’s because the North Koreans took all our food,” Eunjoo said in a worried tone. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Questions from South Korean bank tellers, whom they meet on field trips to open bank accounts, often terrify defectors. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Oh, I see, because the North Koreans had taken over.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Mao offered moral support and—more important—the promise of military backing to his North Korean neighbors. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Now he spends most of his time gardening, reading, and writing articles that he submits to the Korean newspapers. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The North also rained artillery shells on a small South Korean island, killing four people. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Sorry, ladies, your favorite North Korean dictator is off the market,” teased a headline on MSN Now. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Instead, Japanese and Ainu have no demonstrable relationship, and the relationship between Japanese and Korean is distant. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This was especially true in 2010, when North Korea launched a sneak submarine attack that killed forty-six South Korean sailors and sank the Cheonan, a warship sailing in South Korean territorial waters. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Instead, and only in part to spite him, I grunted my best Korean to the other men. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Korean food? Best food. Healthy. Good for you,” I say to Natasha, imitating my mom. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “You never really said anything about what you Koreans believe in,” she said. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I hire Korean man to run dry cleaning shop. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon afterward a man wearing a suit came in, speaking effusively in Korean. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Rooms were heated—in the Korean way—by a coal fire in the kitchen with flues running under the bedroom floor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They could have been American or North Korean. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z A twenty-nine-year-old Korean American, she helped Shin manage his money, visas, travel, medical care, and behavior. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In America, he said, it’s even hard to stay Korean. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It took me a second to realize that by “Grandma” he meant Mom’s mom, because Dad’s mom only cooks Korean food and chicken nuggets. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z For the next 35 years, Japanese occupation forces tried to eradicate Korean culture and to replace Korean with the Japanese language in schools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Outside Seoul, I talked to a North Korean defector who had paid twelve thousand dollars to a broker to smuggle out her eleven-year-old son in 2002. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When I was little, my grandmother said it to me so many times that I thought it was my Korean name. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Rules were the same in other North Korean labor camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He walked into a dojo in Oklahoma City run by an old Korean man named Master Moon. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Just under two hours to go before my appointment, and Daniel really wants to go to norebang, which is the Korean word for karaoke. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Within weeks, they began streaming onto the Korean Peninsula, shoring up the battered remnants of the South Korean forces and joining the battle against North Korea. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I suspect that the Korean language that was carried to Japan in 400 B.C., and that evolved into modern Japanese, was quite different from the Silla language that evolved into modern Korean. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Korean words for “honey, I love you” sound especially bittersweet to me. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z John Kwang had taught him the words so that he could properly greet the large number of Korean constituents and visitors to our Flushing office. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if Soojin’s Korean church would participate again this year and made a mental note to ask her about it. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He spent most of his time in LiNK’s office, where he read North Korean news on the Web and chatted with Korean-speaking staff. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She doesn’t like spicy food, and I’m Korean so I’ll try to put Tabasco on almost everything. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z What I was noticing most was the liberty they took with the Koreans. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z What had it been like to serve in the North Korean military? Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She lights blunt red sticks of Korean incense he gave her for Christmas and paces in circles, cutting slow butterflies in the smoke with her arms. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Holt's eyeglasses had been crushed in an American air raid, so Blake read the entire book out loud, over weeks and months of confinement in a small Korean farmhouse. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They fret, sometimes to the point of panic, about their educational and financial inferiority to South Koreans. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Perhaps in twenty years his Korean words will creep out like mine, the notes uncertain, tentative. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a Korean channel that she gets through her cable network. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z In English, they would be free of the sharply defined gradients of Korean hierarchy: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Ray was the pastor and everyone else was Korean. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z After eight churches turned him away in Chengdu, Shin made the long, miserable bus trip back to Beijing, where for ten days he refocused his job search on Korean restaurants. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Foreign-based executives of the Korean National Insurance Corporation, the state monopoly that orchestrated the fraud, prepared a special birthday gift. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Some members of the wavering class could move up in the system by joining the Korean People’s Army, serving with distinction and, with luck and connections, securing a lower rung in the ruling party. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z After several minutes, he told Shin they were going to the South Korean Consulate. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “It would be so much easier if I could explain it to you in Korean.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He asks me a question in Korean, and I understand it. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Among Korean Air flight crews, the expectation on layovers used to be that the junior officers would attend to the captain to the point of making him dinner or purchasing him gifts. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Three North Korean agents grabbed her at dusk near a beach, stuffed her into a black body bag, and stole her away on a ship. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He failed to stop his opponents from ripping apart most of the bags containing anti- North Korean leaflets. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He addresses his son by his Korean name and the boy leaps up and hugs him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z South Korea’s safety rating was downgraded by the US Federal Aviation Administration, and Canadian officials informed Korean Air’s management that they were considering revoking the company’s overflight and landing privileges in Canadian airspace. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Ah, yes, John intones, his Korean accent getting thicker and heavier. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Tai, she got pictures of this little Korean girl she sends money to every month. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z But when a killer whale catches and eats a baby seal, I immediately change it back to the Korean variety show. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Shin threw away the stolen, ill-fitting clothes that identified him as a North Korean. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He read about the history of the Korean Peninsula, the reputation of the Kim family dictatorship, and his country’s status as an international pariah. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When the taxi stopped in front of the building flying the South Korean flag, Shin’s chest felt heavy. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z As he shuffles off to the bathroom, Apa picks up the Korean newspaper from the coffee table and tucks it under his arm. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z He sings with his eyes shut tight, the way I would see old Koreans praying in the front pews of Minister Cho’s huge church, their fearsome bouts of concentration on display, ferociously willing. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z With the onset of the Korean War, he enlisted in the army, serving as an artillery sergeant, calibrating guns being fired on enemy infantry. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Most of the people he encountered were not alarmed by or interested in North Koreans. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It’s really boring, because they speak mostly in Korean. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Career counselors at Hanawon say most North Koreans have similar experiences of exile. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z At the top, members of the core class could obtain jobs in government, the Korean Workers’ Party, officer ranks of the military, and the intelligence services. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Eventually they stop expecting their sons to be solely Korean. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z As the trickle of foreign videos turned into a flood, North Korean police became alarmed and came up with new tactics to arrest people who watched them. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In Torrance and adjacent towns, Shin could eat, shop, work, and worship in Korean. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z At each church, he asked to speak to the pastor, explaining that he was a North Korean in need of help. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The forty-page report was quickly denounced by Korean Air officials as sensationalized and unrepresentative, but by that point, it was too late to save the company’s reputation. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “The North Koreans captured it, so the Americans must be here to help us win it back.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z After leaving Korean Air, Greenberg helped start up a freight airline called Cargo 360, and he took a number of Korean pilots with him. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z In Korean, there are no separate sounds for L and R, the sound is singular and without a baroque Spanish trill or roll. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z An enraged President Reagan called the downing of Korean Airlines flight 007 "an act of barbarism." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In the mountain forests, where groups of students were often sent to gather wood, Shin ate wild grapes, gooseberries, and Korean raspberries by the fistful. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z "Maybe I'm really attracted to Korean guys," she said, "and I don't even know it." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z The North Korean government had decided that the camp, with its high-voltage fence and factories that churned out military uniforms, glassware, and cement, needed a reliable local source of electricity, and fast. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Everyone knows it’s a thing how all the black hair care places are owned by Koreans and what an injustice that is. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “Or there’s a new Korean barbecue place I've been dying to check out.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z When he was training to be a guard, he studied the Korean martial art of taekwondo, learned riot-suppression techniques, and was instructed not to worry if his treatment of prisoners caused injury or death. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Not even a Korean girl, a black girl. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Traveling alone and keeping his mouth shut, he discovered that his face and his manner did not advertise his identity as a North Korean on the run. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z South Koreans have paid close attention to the price tag of German unification. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Erlan’s family is Kazakh, from Kazakhstan, and I’m half Korean, half Swiss, so we’re not even from the same sort of place. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z At a Shanghai bus station, Shin browsed through a Korean-language magazine, found a list of Korean restaurants, and went off again in search of work. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Once I’m inside, Grandma immediately urges me to the dining table, where soup, rice, and a lot of banchan, Korean side dishes, are set out for one person. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “I love Korean breakfast,” I say around a mouthful of rice and kimchee. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Of ancient Korean houses and tall westernized buildings. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “Oh, Junie, you understand some Korean! So impressive,” Uncle Paul says as he gives me a fist bump across Grandpa’s bed. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “I like Korea,” he says, I think meaning Koreans. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom and I waited for it to grow while the Korean Fire, our survivor flower, blossomed around it—but that iris seed refused to sprout. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It shocked him to see North Koreans going about their daily lives without having to take orders from guards. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He got a fellowship to travel to Seoul and happened on an interesting story for his PhD thesis in anthropology—it had to do with the Korean pharmaceutical industry. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “It’s not that hard. Instead of seeing us as these horrible words, see us as people. My name is not commie or chink or dog eater or North Korean spy. My name is Junie.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Also widespread in Japan is the theory that the Japanese are descended from horse-riding Central Asian nomads who passed through Korea to conquer Japan in the 4th century A.D. but who were emphatically not Koreans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He watched South Korean life unfold from the windows of his apartment. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Why are you asking him about the stores?” she interrogated me in Korean, her tongue plaintive, edgy, as though she were in some pain. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But this was in 1997, before Korean Air took its power distance issues seriously. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Though I was draft age as the Korean War began, I was exempt from service as long as I was enrolled as a student. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I do not understand why I have to speak Korean at home so I will not forget where I come from. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z He had been a pilot with Korean Air for almost four years after coming over from the Korean Air Force. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The only North Koreans considered trustworthy enough to become guards in political prison camps were men like An Myeong Chul, the son of a North Korean intelligence officer. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Like my parents want, I’ll marry a lovely Korean American girl. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Considerable airtime is devoted to the comfortable lives, by North Korean standards, of defectors living in South Korea, where they receive housing and other subsidies from the government in Seoul. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In the case of the Koreans, one kind of deeply rooted legacy stood in the way of the very modern task of flying an airplane. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “You know, a lot of Korean people have two names, a Korean one and an English one.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Another Korean man of his generation would not forgive the moment so quickly, if ever at all. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Next to his name was a date: 1951, the second year of the Korean War. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Still, the story had been vetted and rang true to survivors of other labor camps, to scholars, to human rights advocates, and to the South Korean government. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z And what Korean Air did, when it finally turned its operations around, was give its pilots the opportunity to escape the constraints of their cultural legacy. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Because his dad was obsessed with martial arts, not because his mom was Korean. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z John Kwang was Korean, slightly younger than my father would have been, though he spoke a beautiful, almost formal English. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she’d scream, and screaming is the same in Korean, Farsi, and English. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He said police had warned him that very morning not to help North Koreans. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z After finding his way to South Korea, An found work as a banker in Seoul and married a South Korean woman. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Every day, new patients would come in after being savagely beaten by North Korean soldiers. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Once I heard her humming a pretty melody in her room, some Korean folk song, but as I walked toward her doorway to hear it better she stopped immediately, and I never heard it again. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Later tonight at dinner, he’ll say something to my mom in Korean in the voice he uses to complain about Americans. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z By the time of the Kofun period, all Japanese skeletons except those of the Ainu formed a homogeneous group, resembling modern Japanese and Koreans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We Koreans have reinvented the idea of luck as mostly bad, and try to do everything we can to prevent it. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z You will also find that you might make friends more easily with other internationals, Koreans, Indians, Brazilians, whatever, than with Americans both black and white. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He tells them in a low Korean as they stand like soldiers before him, You two behave tonight while I’m out. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Since 2002, the Beijing government had been attempting—with considerable success—to stop North Koreans from rushing into foreign embassies and consulates to seek asylum. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She says, I met the minister while I was shopping at the Korean market. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Rarely did he pursue me in front of the others, and then only if he were in the foulest humor, sometimes asking in a dramatic voice for me to speak on behalf of Koreans everywhere. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The money, he said, was delivered to Office 39 of the Korean Workers’ Party Central Committee. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z No Korean father or mother, no taunting boys or girls, no teachers showing me how to say my American name. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandmother did give me a Korean video game once. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “I’m happy to, but you should also take lessons. There’s a Korean-language school that is based in our church. We can sign you up to take Korean class with kids your age.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z This part he says in Korean because the last thing my dad would want to do is air our dirty laundry in front of a miguk saram. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z When DDT powder was applied to a group of Korean soldiers the extraordinary result was an actual increase in the infestation of lice. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Suicide is a powerful temptation for North Koreans plucked out of ordinary lives and subjected to the labor camps’ regime of hard labor, hunger, beatings, and sleep deprivation. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Within days, the North Koreans discovered Blake and took him prisoner along with a group of British diplomats and civilians. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The North Korean missile detonates prematurely, but the aggressive act puts the world’s nations on high alert. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Greenberg’s first step was something that would make no sense if you did not understand the true roots of Korean Air’s problems. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z A second theory, unappealing to those Japanese who prefer the first theory, argues instead that the Yayoi transition represents a massive influx of immigrants from Korea, carrying Korean farming practices, culture, and genes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He began by goading his audience of Korean immigrants and their American-raised adult children, asserting that Kim Jong II was worse than Hitler. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The core class included farm workers, families of soldiers killed during the Korean War, families of troops who had served with Kim II Sung fighting against Japanese occupation, and government workers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z On the way home, she passed by Main Street and was shocked to see it filled with North Korean soldiers. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Kyushu would have seemed a paradise to Korean rice farmers, because it is warmer and swampier than Korea and hence a better place to grow rice. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z LiNK has a strict no-dating rule between North Korean refugees and interns, many of whom are college age and far from their parents. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The numbers were double that of Angola, then at the end of a long civil war, and the North Korean government became furious when they were released to the public. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “What United States Navy ship was once captured by the North Koreans?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “First we were oppressed by the Japanese; now we are caught between Russia and China on one side, and the Americans on the other. When will free Koreans control our own destiny?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z John cries, “You sound so formal! Even with a little hate you are so respectful and Korean.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “You never talk about being Korean,” Dari said, and then I felt weird about it, like I’d done something wrong. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z On a cool late-summer evening in an oceanside suburb of Los Angeles, Shin stood in front of a small audience of Korean American teenagers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Maybe Connecticut Koreans are too distant, perhaps they think they have more money or class than other Koreans. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z For the Chinese government, an uncontrolled surge of impoverished Korean refugees is undesirable for several reasons. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I give it to her, for some reason, in the formal Korean way, with my eyes down and my free hand guiding my extended wrist. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She also said he had an advantage over other North Koreans: he had not been contaminated by propaganda or the cult of personality that surrounds the Kim dynasty. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z On the far corner is the all-night Korean deli; two workers, a Korean and a Hispanic, are sitting on crates and smoking cigarettes outside. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d teach us old songs in Korean, drinking songs, school songs, whatever we could learn. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z More important, it might precipitate regime collapse in North Korea and lead to the unification of the Korean Peninsula under a Seoul-based government closely allied with the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Later, China’s imperial government recruited Korean farmers to create a buffer against Russian expansion, and Korea’s Choson Dynasty allowed them to depart legally. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “How come you call yourself Korean?” she asks after a few more sips. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z There was no South Korean version of the “9/11” effect that propelled the United States into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “I read that Korean nationals are the most rescued people from the world’s mountaintops.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The new language of Korean Air was English, and if you wanted to remain a pilot at the company, you had to be fluent in that language. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Once when he and his twin brother were twelve, they were sitting in a car with their father as he read a newspaper story about the Korean War. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z At Hanawon, the resettlement center in South Korea, job counselors say that workplace paranoia, stormy resignations, and lingering feelings of betrayal are chronic problems as North Koreans adjust to new lives. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It was a belated admission that tens of thousands of famine-stricken North Koreans had already gone to China and that the country was increasingly dependent on their remittances. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, he stuck around to watch the Korean conflict, where Ensign Stephanides served on a submarine chaser. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z My grandfather says that it’s something Koreans have had to do historically, because Korea was invaded so many times. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Out in the hallway, Mom explains why Grandpa is speaking in Korean. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Of course she knew who he was, that he was Korean. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z On the way through town, a group of North Korean soldiers stopped them and ordered them out of the truck. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The North Korean government turned him into an actor who always played an evil Caucasian face in propaganda movies that demonized the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It’s estimated that South Korean businesses control between sixty and eighty percent of that market, including distribution, retail, and, increasingly, manufacturing. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The dominance of South Koreans in the black hair care industry also did not happen by chance. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z His red Korean mink blanket lies bunched together at the foot of the bed, his pillow pushed off to the ground. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z They spoke in veiled attacks about his mediation of talks surrounding the black boycotts of Korean businesses across the city. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z "We spent that night burning our codes and secret documents in a sheltered corner of the garden in the hope that the bonfire would not attract the attention of the North Korean military." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t you know any Korean songs?” he asks. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z While Shin was still in the Seattle area, he invited me to a Korean American Pentecostal church in the city’s northern suburbs. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Private markets, which today supply most of the food North Koreans eat, have become the fundamental reason why most outside experts say a catastrophic 1990s-style famine is unlikely to happen again. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Over the next two days, North Korean soldiers charged past the dividing line, scattering South Korea's military forces. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She’s always cooking all kinds of foods, not just Korean food but Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Vietnamese, and even Russian. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Only when the farmer drove away did Shin discover that no one on the ranch spoke Korean. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I told people Ipuda was my Korean name, until Dad heard me saying it and told me to stop. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The lyrics of “Song of the Winter Solstice,” which recent defectors say is the theme song of a popular program on North Korean state television, are about traveling companions who endure hardship and pain. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Despite repeated assurances from consulate staff, he could not believe he was really under the protection of the South Korean government. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The resulting conclusion is that the Korean/Yayoi contribution was generally dominant. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She offers him some mandu, even though he hates Korean food and has refused to eat it since junior high. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Shin was passionate about food and did his best talking in Korean and Mexican restaurants. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He hated explaining to them why his prices were higher than at other stores, even the other Korean ones, though he always did. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She asks John something in Korean slang, something about “being okay,” and he grunts back. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z For so long he was effortlessly Korean, effortlessly American. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In 2006, Korean Air was given the Phoenix Award by Air Transport World in recognition of its transformation. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z They ran across the street and squeezed between the Korean/Brazilian truck and a Chinese egg roll burrito vendor. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The middle of town was still empty of villagers but full of North Korean soldiers patrolling the area. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z By 2008, many North Korean defectors were so deeply in debt to the smugglers that the South Korean government changed the way it distributed cash support. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Beijing’s distaste for North Korean defectors, as enforced by police and border soldiers, is well understood by farmers, factory foremen, and other bosses in China’s northeast provinces. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Korean speakers living in northeast China have also been an unsung force for cultural change inside North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z At the third Korean restaurant he walked into, the owner offered him a job. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z At the Database Center, where staff members had been working with North Koreans for years, Shin was viewed as a kind of rough-hewn prodigy. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “It’s that kit I got from the Korean market. The ones you guys raved about.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z For months he had been talking to Chinese and Korean gang leaders, in an effort to halt their street extortion and violence, negotiate some kind of settlement. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s either because I’m not black or because you’re not Korean.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The restaurant is part of a whole block of Korean businesses lodged in converted row apartments dating from the fifties, when the population was still Italian and Irish and Jewish. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z This ensured that wigs featuring South Korean hair could only be made in South Korea. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z LiNK pushes the North Koreans it helps bring to the United States to make a “life plan” soon after they arrive. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “So No-Last-Name-Leo is Filipino or Korean or something. I’ll have to call Principal Jackson over at Cesar Chavez and see who this Leo is.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He said, too, that he was ashamed for stealing rice and clothing from poor North Koreans during his flight out of the country. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z History gives them good reason to dislike each other: especially, for Koreans to dislike Japanese. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On 29 January 2016 the South Korean government passes a law giving incentives to citizens who use Mind’s Eye for a minimum of sixteen hours daily. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Apa picks up the Korean newspaper and sits down on the couch. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Lawyers for German insurance giant Allianz Global Investors, Lloyd’s of London, and several other reinsurers filed suit in a London court against the Korean National Insurance Corporation. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Their behavior and their desperation is described in Nothing to Envy, Barbara Demick’s book about how ordinary North Koreans endured the famine years. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “But those girls are both American and Korean.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z They speak of Uhmma’s early years gathering and drying fish along the Korean coastline. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z But, as Shin found out, they are quite willing to ignore national directives when presented with an industrious North Korean who keeps his mouth shut and works hard for sixty cents a day. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “You hate me because I have Korean friends?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z But he did not have detailed information about where to cross it or what bribes would be acceptable to the North Korean guards who patrol along its southern bank. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Other Koreans depended on him to find good deals and transact them. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Several times they hid as trucks and North Korean soldiers marched by them. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z There is ample evidence that South Korean society makes it hard for defectors to fit in. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “I’m used to it. My parents think I’m not Korean enough. Everybody else thinks I’m not American enough.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z On September 1, the pilot of a Soviet interceptor jet launched air-to-air missiles at Korean Air Lines flight 007, which Soviet ground crews had mistaken for a hostile military aircraft. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z On the one hand, the Japanese people are biologically undistinctive, being very similar in their appearance and genes to other East Asians, especially to Koreans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He finished his training just as the Korean War settled into a truce, narrowly missing the chance to fly combat missions. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Do not get up until you know how to be a Korean girl again. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z “My parents are first-generation Korean immigrants,” I say by way of explanation. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “Shin is still a prisoner,” said Andy Kim, a young Korean American who helped run LiNK and who, for a time, was Shin’s closest confidant. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Whenever he could, he always tried to stand right next to her, and then marvel at how tall and straight she was, like a fine young horse, he’d say in Korean, admiringly. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He said he was a Korean War veteran, and backed up his claim with lively stories from places in distant parts of the world. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Sunjin’s house was busy, North Korean soldiers coming in and out, Sunjin’s mom serving them, but with a strained expression on her face. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The Koreans stood there, uneasy, trying to explain difficult notions in a broken English. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The only person who lets me ask questions and be someone other than a good Korean daughter. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z In his memoir about six years in two of the camps, Kim Yong, a former lieutenant colonel in the North Korean army, says the appeal of suicide was “overwhelming.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Shin learned how to read and write the Korean alphabet, doing exercises on coarse paper made in the camp from cornhusks. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Almost two months had passed since the North Koreans had taken over Seosan. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z At breakfast and lunch and dinner my father and I called her “Ah-juh-ma,” literally aunt, but more akin to “ma’am,” the customary address to an unrelated Korean woman. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Experienced interrogators, they conduct extensive interviews with every North Korean defector and have been trained to screen out the assassins that Kim Jong Il’s government periodically dispatched to the South. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It rose deftly from a small neighborhood of duplexes, laundromats, and mom-and-pop restaurants, mostly Korean and soul food. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z South Koreans want reunification with the North, but they do not want it right away. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Yeong-jin: Dad’s Korean name, which Twig found on his diploma in his office. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They went into the police station, which was now full of North Korean soldiers. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Not only is she a great writer, but she’s Korean American, which makes me really happy. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z She offered to buy it for four thousand North Korean won, which was worth about four dollars at black-market exchange rates. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Candidates are chosen by the Korean Workers’ Party and run without opposition. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I follow the strolling Saturday families of brightly wrapped Hindus and then the black-clad Hasidim, and step into all the old churches that were once German and then Korean and are now Vietnamese. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In South Korea, North Korean defectors routinely quit their jobs, claiming they have been singled out for persecution. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Overwhelming evidence of continuing atrocities inside the North’s labor camps has done little to rouse the South Korean public. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The Korean words flow right over me, familiar and yet incomprehensible. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The only thing I keep in it is the gold baby ring that most Korean kids get at their one-year birthday. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Many told stories about how they had become addicted to Hollywood movies and South Korean soap operas. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I always freeze for a second on hearing my Korean name. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In the midst of the controversy, an outside audit of Korean Air’s operations was leaked to the public. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z After Japan's defeat in 1945, control of the Korean Peninsula split down the middle, at the 38th parallel, a line that cut the nation neatly in half. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They did not know that tens of thousands of North Koreans had abandoned their homes and were walking into China in search of food. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z For most of those two years, Blake and a small group of prisoners languished in a makeshift North Korean prison camp, plagued with monotony and boredom. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Shin had stumbled upon a journalist, a Shanghai-based correspondent for a major South Korean media company. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z My mother, in her hurt, invaded, Korean way, would have counseled me to distrust him, this clever Japanese. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In violation of United Nations resolutions, North Koreans have also sold rockets and nuclear weapons technology to countries including Iran and Syria, according to U.N. officials. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Here there were dead office towers, brought to life at night by restaurants buried within that served small kegs of beer and Korean fried chicken. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “What are you doing?” my father asks in Korean. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z He has never wanted me to use the Korean word for big brother. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z She’d raised him on her own, and he said he’d had enough Korean words and foods and customs while growing up. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In the Korean language, they signified the seniority and superiority of Shin the teacher over Park the apprentice. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The jacket of the dark charcoal suit fit him perfectly, as did his trousers, which must have been retailored from their lanky western proportion to flatter his short Korean legs. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He believed that if the Koreans were honest about where they came from and were willing to confront those aspects of their heritage that did not suit the aviation world, they could change. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Once Japanese banks, now Korean independent banks after World War II had ended. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z When I interviewed Jenkins, he and his family lived on Japan’s remote Sado Island, where his wife was born and where North Korean agents had kidnapped her. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Hence early Korean agriculture could not compete with Jomon hunting and gathering. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead, the truck continued on to Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, passing through a hellish landscape of burned-out villages and rotting corpses along the way. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The capacity of the Chinese borderlands to absorb North Koreans is significant—and significantly underappreciated outside of Northeast Asia. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She likes to talk Korean at our house because in her house Uncle Tim wants only English. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z It had once been the Korean presidential plane. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Sometimes he spoke from beneath it, his weary Korean mumbling, and I could only read the embroidery of the word Titleist in place of actually understanding him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t fire all of his Korean pilots and start again with pilots from a low-power distance culture. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It was all about President Johnson trying to get a bill passed to help the urban poor, and then something about the Pueblo, which had been taken over by the North Koreans. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t get you two. Is this Korean? You’re so brutal. Why don’t you just ask the manager for a knife and then see how much of your blood you can offer each other?” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence we should not be surprised that modern Japanese and Korean people resemble each other far more in their appearance and genes than in their languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the past decade, the United States government and law enforcement agencies around the world have documented that some of these North Koreans are involved in criminal enterprises that funnel hard currency to Pyongyang. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Shin moved on to a nearby brick house, where he asked another Korean Chinese man for help. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Shin was nine years old when the North Korean caste system knocked him on the head. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z A Korean man, of his age, as part of the vernacular. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Korean Air did not succeed—it did not right itself—until it acknowledged the importance of its cultural legacy. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Then, one morning, a North Korean officer summoned Blake to accompany him to a village nearly an hour's walk away. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z At the border, North Korean authorities detained Park and his family. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “To know about the Korean War, you must also know about the history of Korea.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The Korean language has no fewer than six different levels of conversational address, depending on the relationship between the addressee and the addresser: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I tell her yes and look at May, her face as yet wrinkleless, so round, her full cheek pinching her narrow eyes, the color and curve so durably Korean. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Rice had become a precious commodity, to be kept safe from the North Korean soldiers. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “He’s so happy that you want to learn Korean,” Grandma says. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Nor have they stopped the average South Korean from getting richer, better educated, and better housed in what has become the fourth largest economy in Asia, the eleventh largest in the world. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The North Korean government could hardly set the record straight, since it denies that Camp 14 exists. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Following a skillful amphibious landing, more than 75,000 American and South Korean troops punched forward against the North Korean army. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They finally said, with hard pride, that she was afflicted with a “Korean fever” that no doctor in America was able to cure. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z This new breed of brokers would often receive advance payment in cash from affluent or middle-income South Korean families seeking the release of a relative. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Koreans like to taste everything at once, have it all out on the table, flagrantly mixing the flavors. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe it only seemed like she didn’t recognize your name. Korean parents don’t say too much.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Spoken like a true Korean,” Grandpa responds approvingly. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, loathing of the Japanese is widespread in Korea, and contempt for Koreans is widespread in Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At the start of the Korean War, the Tan Yanks remaining in active service in the US Air Force were called up to serve as a part of an integrated squadron. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “You and your Korean food and your Korean friends and studying Korean in school. It’s pathetic. Don’t you get it, Little Brother? You’re just like everybody else.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z He once mentioned something about the “big network” in Korean business, how someone from the rural regions of the country could only get so far in Seoul. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mother had been too afraid to let them out ever since the North Korean Army had advanced into Incheon. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Since Shin had been taught next to nothing in Camp 14, a radically revised history of the Korean Peninsula was not meaningful to him. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She backed away when she saw Lelia and cried madly in Korean, You cat! Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And then my father came out from the sliding porch door and saw me, a cordless phone in his hand, and he yelled in Korean that the ambulance was coming. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It is difficult to overstate the importance of rice in North Korean culture. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They did so, legal analysts said, because they had foolishly signed contracts in which they agreed to be bound by North Korean law. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Indeed, a famed Chinese scholar had once named twelve small wonders of the world; eleven of them were Chinese, and the twelfth was the color of Korean celadon pottery! A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z What is being asked of her is the same thing that was asked of the Korean pilots. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Chinese employers are also free to cheat, abuse, or get rid of their North Korean help at any time. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The propaganda can be quite creative: the famine was repackaged as the “Arduous March,” a patriotic struggle that North Koreans were encouraged to win with the inspiring slogan: “Let’s Eat Two Meals Per Day.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z For a few seconds, I’m disoriented by the businesses stacked high on top of each other with Korean signage until I remember that we’re in Koreatown. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Clean all this up well so she doesn’t see it, he said hoarsely in Korean. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s from yangban stock, her people are the Korean landed gentry, and she finds this open talk of figures awkward, unnecessary. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a Korean word that they use a lot. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He knew I was Korean, or Korean-American, though perhaps not exactly the same way he was. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Two prints in red frames hang over the bed, each with one bold black Korean letter. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z My little Korean Fire sat in the corner, wrapped in a big, happy Christmas bow, and I threw an egg at that one, too, but I missed. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He declined to socialize or work with other North Koreans who had been released from labor camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Activist pastors from South Korean churches invented the escape trade in the late 1990s and early 2000s, hiring border operatives who greased the palms of North Korean guards with cash donated by parishioners in Seoul. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Even my Japanese and Korean friends say that they sometimes have difficulty guessing whether someone is Japanese or Korean just by looking at his or her face. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It began in the 1960s with the rise in popularity of wigs made with South Korean hair in the African American community. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z When the Korean War ended in 1953, Milton was stationed again in Norfolk. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Chun and several other Seoul-based operatives told me that given enough money they could get virtually any North Korean out of the country. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I make whatever is easy for dinner, tonight a Korean dish of soup and steamed rice. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z For North Koreans who did not have them, travel permits were hard to come by. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Ethnic Korean pastors gave him cash, as much as fifteen dollars’ worth of yuan. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Only a few Koreans of Japanese inscriptions before the year A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The North Korean government had been forced—by catastrophic famine in the mid-1990s and the importance of Chinese foodstuffs in feeding the population—to tolerate a porous border with China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “I have something to tell you today. An incredible bit of news. Black and Korean children, as some in this city would have you believe, aren’t yet boycotting one another’s comer lemonade stands.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of the Korean War, Congress had just lowered the minimum age for military service to eighteen and a half, so Lawrence was drafted at sixteen. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Unlike Charles, I don’t have anything against Korean girls. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I was across the street in front of the office so I couldn’t hear him, but I was certain that he was yelling in both Korean and English. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I missed sitting in their kitchen, chatting, and getting to sample new menu items for the Parks’ Korean restaurant while we were away. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z An arrested Korean gang chief named Han had been publicly threatening him, spreading the word on the street that Kwang had betrayed them. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z When the North Korean KPA had rolled into town five days before with a fleet of trucks and hundreds of men, they’d immediately taken over the town administration. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Aside from the Korean War years, though, the number actually called to serve had been small. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Every culture is like that. The Americans, the French, the Jamaicans, the Koreans. Everyone thinks their way is the best way.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The young North Korean border guard had been watching Shin’s progress. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z So she would sit in the corner of their tiny kitchen and yell at him in Korean. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The family, which has befriended a number of North Korean immigrants, lives in Riverside, a city sixty miles east of Torrance. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z This visible evidence of political centralization that the kofun provide reinforces the accounts of Kofun era Japanese emperors written down much later in Japanese and Korean chronicles. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Similarly, when Sapiens reached East Asia, they interbred with the local Erectus, so the Chinese and Koreans are a mixture of Sapiens and Erectus. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “But they were the South Korean soldiers! Why would they treat you like that? And that woman! How could they just believe her like that? That’s not fair!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “Listen, those are mostly local Reds. The North Korean Army isn’t here yet.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I was usually the only Korean in a room of young Jews and Chinese and Hispanics. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The compounds were often small, with few guards and not much fencing, but during their brief stays inside, many North Koreans said they routinely witnessed executions and deaths from torture and starvation. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It extended barbed wire and built new concrete barriers.3 China, too, increased border security to discourage North Koreans from entering the country in the run-up to the 2008 Summer Olympics. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Pizza, hot dogs, and hamburgers—staples of South Korean teen cuisine—give them indigestion. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She obviously speaks no English, and although my Korean is lacking I know the accents enough to know that hers isn’t educated. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But then one day, every single one of the North Korean soldiers were gone. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He says further that a check unrelated to this listing showed that the Korean girl involved in the accident with John Kwang is also an illegal. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Before World War II, the Japanese who occupied the Korean Peninsula and northeast China pushed tens of thousands of Korean farmers across the border to weaken China’s hold on the region. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He says, in a laughing Korean, Ah, you, I want it just like that! Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wanted to leave long ago! Before the North Koreans arrived!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Shin corrected the boy, saying he had not served in the Korean People’s Army. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She was buried in a Korean ceremony two days afterward, and for me it was more a disappearance than a death. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Her father worried that if they left Incheon, he would not be able to make enough money to buy rice, like so many other poor Koreans. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z After her third year in college, she decided to leave school and get involved full time in the North Korean issue. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Nine out of ten households traded to survive.1 More and more North Koreans sneaked across the border into China for food, work, trade, and flight to South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “You got a Korean boy fetish or what?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z In the past half century, the governments of China and North Korea have cooperatively used their security forces to make sure that the intermittent seepage of Koreans across the border never turns into a flood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z One night, when the rest of the prisoners were sleeping, Blake approached the North Korean guardhouse, carrying a note written in Russian, asking for a meeting at the Russian embassy in Pyongyang. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z After the service, as the remaining worshippers gathered outside the church, news whipsawed through the crowd that North Korean troops had crossed the 38th parallel. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t know nothing! This American girl, she nobody for you. She don’t know nothing about you. You Korean man. So so different. “So what!” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It is not the case that all cultural advances in East Asia stemmed from China and that Koreans, Japanese, and tropical Southeast Asians were noninventive barbarians who contributed nothing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Or when they both scoffed at us and said, “Speak English, you’re in America,” while we were teaching each other phrases in Urdu and Korean. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The government classified and, to a considerable extent, segregated the entire North Korean population based on the perceived reliability of an individual’s parents and grandparents. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He was shifting into Korean, getting his throat ready. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s not funny. We don’t want North Korean Communist pigs here!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Although his American-born housemates were sometimes noisy, spoke little Korean, and never stayed around very long, he preferred their energetic transience to living alone. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When she leaves through the side door of the kitchen, I know it’s just the two of us, two Korean men at opposite ends of a stately Victorian house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Gunwoo’s family had escaped from the North and lost many members to the Russians and North Korea’s KPA, Korean People’s Army. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “Henry and I, we were secretly Reagan Democrats. Selfish cowards. Admit it, I will. I know you Koreans.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Korean languages may have been even more diverse in 400 B.C., before political unification had reached the stage of three kingdoms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A Korean Chinese man told him to go away. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It was a strange thing to hear from a Korean man, and I wondered what circumstance would have had to arise for my father to profess openly a feeling like that. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re mostly white except for Esther Song, the only other Korean girl at our school, who never acknowledges my existence. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Even when Shin mentioned that he had come from North Korea in conversation with ethnic Koreans he appealed to for food, cash, or work, he learned that he was nobody special. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z After international investigators confirmed that a North Korean torpedo sank the Cheonan, voters in the South refused to rally around President Lee, who had said the North Korean government should “pay a price.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He took a bus about 220 miles south to Jinan, a city of five million, and spent five days searching out more Korean churches. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z No matter how much of a leader he was, on a deeper level he discussed with his mother who he really was—Korean or American? Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z There are brightly lit signs and billboards written only in Korean. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Especially in their eye shapes, those statues unmistakably depict East Asians, such as modern Japanese or Koreans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Like Arabs and Jews, Koreans and Japanese are peoples joined by blood, yet locked in traditional enmity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In this respect, he was like many North Korean defectors. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z And he says in satori-accented Korean, Hey you, arrogant youth, stop doing all that work and come drink with an elder. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z From his PhD research on Korean pharmaceutical companies, Jim knew that the price of a drug to the public often had little to do with the costs of manufacturing or distributing it. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Jonathan, who is Korean and plays the cello, comes from L.A. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z To force traders to pay, North Korean security forces invented a new twist on labor camps of the sort that Shin was born in. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z His lips said, I was sure in Korean, Thank you. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z This really bugs me because for nearly an hour the conversation was all in Korean. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Early Korean chronicles tell us that the different kingdoms had different languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The restaurant, called Haedanghwa Korean Cuisine, was hectic and Shin worked long hours, washing dishes and cleaning tables. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z To keep the fall crop of daikon from freezing during the cold months, North Koreans sometimes bury them in mounds. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z As we passed the rows of Korean stores on the boulevard, John could tell me the names of the owners and previous owners. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He just showed up one Sunday with the stuff to make his special Korean ribs, which had to be marinated for three days—so I knew he was planning to stick around. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I still remember certain things about the woman: she wore white rubber Korean slippers that were shaped exactly like miniature canoes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z White girl will never understand us, never be Korean. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I started over to her not knowing what I might say when my father intercepted me and said smiling in Korean, as if he were complimenting me, “She’s a steady customer.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee, whose identity was confirmed by South Korean intelligence officials, worked for three years along the China-North Korea border. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It was a legacy of the Korean War, a decades-old protocol that gave American intelligence a firsthand chance to find out what defectors knew about the North. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z North Korean defectors arriving in Seoul said that Chinese-made transistor radios had allowed them to listen to Chinese and South Korean stations, as well as to Radio Free Asia and Voice of America. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Then, after six months inside the consulate, Shin flew to Seoul, where the South Korean National Intelligence Service took an uncommon interest in him. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I was in Korea 15 months, was rotated and sent back to the states—and was given special recognition as being the first Korean Vet to come back to the territory of Alaska. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “All Koreans have ever wanted was to be united again into one country,” he says. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Korean vases are beautiful and very different looking. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Other urgent and patriotic tasks that North Koreans have been urged to shoulder include “Let’s Breed More High-Yielding Fish!,” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z More than three hundred thousand Korean Americans have settled in and around the city. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z We listened to Sergeant Dongan talk about how hard things had been in the Korean war, and how tough the Koreans had been. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know, it kind of made me feel like my family was bad at being Korean. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Have you heard of the flower Korean Fire?” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z North Korea would have lost the Korean War and disappeared as a state without the help of the Chinese, who fought the United States and other Western forces to a stalemate. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The farmer said he had once employed two North Korean defectors and that they had been useful workers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Almost out of nowhere, the Korean War had begun. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The wigs were so popular that the South Korean government banned the export of raw hair from its shores. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z At the border and inside the country, the North Korean government has tried to crush these smuggling operations—and periodically it succeeds. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He was a knotted-up old Korean guy, and since Ray couldn’t pay any money, he made Ray a deal. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The smell is still Korean, irreparably so, cousin to that happy stink of my mother’s breath. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A Korean Chinese man refused to let him in the house. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “So you wanted to come here because of the South Korean government.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I admired the speed the entire Korean team seemed to have and how fearless the Russians were no matter who was on the other side of the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z There he settles into an armchair and flips on a Korean satellite channel with the volume turned up extra loud. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I was only a quarter Korean, and most people couldn’t tell just by looking at me. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He drank ten beers, stumbled across the world’s most heavily militarized border, and surrendered his M14 rifle to startled North Korean soldiers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But giving shelter to three North Koreans had annoyed the farmer. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “They think they’ll understand Korean girls. Even the ones raised here.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z In the Korean War, U.S. forces helped push back the invasion, but at a cost of more than thirty-six thousand American lives. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z We ate the food in near silence, the Korean family way, bent over the steaming crocks and dishes like scribing monks. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Without intending to do so, wealthy donor countries injected a kind of adrenaline rush into the grubby world of North Korean street trading. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Is that some kind of secret Korean code?” the taller one chimed in. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “My American name is Jinjoo Han. Han is my married name. But my Korean name will always be Lee Jinjoo. Because Korean women keep their maiden names.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The man, a Chinese farmer who spoke some Korean, invited Shin inside and ordered a young woman to cook rice. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In the summer of 2004, in the largest single mass defection, South Korea flew 468 North Koreans from Vietnam to Seoul. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They sit upright and John says to go to an after-hours club on lower Broadway, near all the Korean restaurants and shops. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The walls of the restaurant are papered with legal-sized sheets with the house specials in Korean characters. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He himself once ran a wholesale shop on this very row, long before all of it became Korean in the 1980s. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They often depend on the South Korean government to solve their problems, and fail to take personal responsibility for poor work habits or for showing up late on the job. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He had heard on the radio that Korean churches in China sometimes helped defectors. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He graduated from Annapolis and served in the Korean War. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z That, in turn, could arouse nationalist sentiments among ethnic Koreans in the Chinese borderlands. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Like the second theory, this one considers modern Japanese to be slightly modified Koreans but dispenses with the need for large-scale immigration. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The students and friends he’d hung out with in Korea cared mostly about Korean nationalism or what college they were going to—preferably in the United States—and what degree they would earn. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The Korean money funnels in mostly through the dozens of churches across the metropolitan area. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The truth, though, is that my father got his first infusion of capital from a ggeh, a Korean “money club” in which members contributed to a pool that was given out on a rotating basis. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Pyongyang was particularly enraged by South Korean and American initiatives that made it easier for North Korean defectors who had crossed into China to travel even farther, and settle in the West. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The Korean table is a lesson in plates. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Park, during the four weeks he had lectured Shin on how the world worked, had also been sharply critical of the North Korean government. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He had been cheated, but like all North Koreans working in China he was in no position to protest. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “When I was ten years old, the Korean War began, and my entire life changed.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The Korean noodle shop is near 41st and Parsons. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z "Good thing I'm the only Korean guy in Omaha," he said. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z For an hour Mr. Shin uses Korean and English examples to talk about the compassion of God. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Korean is also often considered to be an isolated member of this family, and within the family Japanese and Korean may be more related to each other than to other Altaic languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Peruvians showed up outside the door of the converted storefront of the new office with their tall skinny drums and guitars and handmade placards that read: “Koreans Unfair.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z After he was introduced by a LiNK staffer, he said hello to the students in Korean and asked, through a translator, if they had any questions. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He could always unsettle her face with a stem admonition or an old joke or pun in Korean. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandpa tilts his head to the side and pulls at his ear before making a sound that is very Korean for I’m not sure or I don’t know. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I try to imagine her with a name I associate with Swiss cartoon characters or a famous supermodel—not my twelve-year-old Korean best friend. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “My parents only want us to date Korean girls.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z She wore a traditional Korean costume, the shortened brocade vest and billowing long skirt in bright yellow and red silk and rainbow bands around the oversized sleeves. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The consulate was comfortable, South Korean officials were helpful, and there was another North Korean defector inside the consulate to talk to. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z As the Korean Bar Association has noted, “South Koreans, who publicly cherish the virtue of brotherly love, have been inexplicably stuck in a deep quagmire of indifference.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She gave her son an American name followed by a Korean personal name followed by the family name. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Numerical evidence can be found in the large number of North Koreans—about forty-five hundred—who arrived in South Korea in 2006 and 2007. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z What is it about the different organization of these various Korean industries that accounts for their differences in productivity within the same country? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think I know a lot of their stories. But I do know they lived through the Korean War.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “Ah no, it’s more complicated than that! They formed one so that immigrant Koreans could work together and form their own community where it didn’t matter that their English was bad,” he explained. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The Korean explained to us that he only gave exchanges, no refunds, he seemed to say again for all, pointing continually at the sign that said so by the door. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The chronicles are also full of accounts of Koreans in Japan and of Japanese in Korea—interpreted by Japanese or Korean historians respectively as evidence of Japanese conquest of Korea or the reverse. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By the time Shin hit the road, defectors themselves, many of them former North Korean military and police officers, had taken over the trade and were quietly running for-profit operations. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z What a nose! he’d cry in Korean at the television set. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “They say hateful stuff about Asians all the time. I’ve actually heard them make comments about Koreans eating dog in front of you. Why do you let them do that?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I don’t add that it’s one of the only Korean dishes I really like. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The North Korean government has created new labor camps to hold traders and travelers too poor or too unlucky to bribe their way north. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Only North Korean soldiers on patrol everywhere, their tan uniforms looking drab and dusty. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Jim Kim, a Korean American, shared the same principles as Farmer, but he had a different view about how to achieve them. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z If so, modern Japanese are descendants of Korean immigrants who developed a modified culture of their own over the last 2,000 years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In 2000, Korean Air finally acted, bringing in an outsider from Delta Air Lines, David Greenberg, to run their flight operations. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I thought English would be simply a version of our Korean. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, Lee’s party was routed in a midterm election that showed that South Koreans were more interested in preserving peace and protecting living standards than in teaching the North a lesson. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z His story was vetted and scrutinized by former prisoners and guards from the camps, as well as by human rights lawyers, South Korean journalists, and other experts with extensive knowledge of the camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He didn’t want any more “culture” in his life, and he could go on forever pretending the Korean half of him didn’t exist. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Us Koreans might actually be right, though,” I say, grinning. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z A Korean convenience store a few blocks away sells La Maizteca tortillas, made in New York. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The coffee table is overturned, Korean newspaper strewn all over the carpet. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z He devoured news about North Korea, on the Internet and in South Korean newspapers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I said he had some influence with the Korean businesspeople in the community, that he believed in fairness in pay and hard work, but that he could only do so much. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Satellite photographs of the Korean Peninsula at night show a black hole between China and South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I pick up several boxes near the front door with Korean words scribbled on the sides and take them to Uhmma for deciphering. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z It was located in Hwaseong, a city of about five hundred thousand people in the low plains of the central Korean Peninsula, near the Yellow Sea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z By the same token, the modern Korean language may be a poor model for the ancient Yayoi language of Korean immigrants in 400 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Italian, Thai, Dutch, Korean, and Chinese—we all left: class foolishly believing that the worst was over. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Eomma, was it the North Koreans? Are they going to kill us all?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The government’s Public Distribution System, which had fed most North Koreans since the 1950s, collapsed. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “But you know,” he said, “he’s not like all the other Koreans around here, all tense and everything.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Since escaping the camp, Shin had been struggling to learn what normal behavior was for North Koreans. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Reluctant as Japanese and Koreans are to admit it, they are like twin brothers who shared their formative years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He stares up at me and says to his father in Korean, What did uncle bring us? Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all flight engineers, who had been number three, after the captain and first officer, in the strict hierarchy of the original Korean Air. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Helda, on May’s orders, kept the Korean foodstuffs down here, the earthenware jars of pickled vegetables and meats, the fermented seasoning pastes and sauces, strips of dried seafood. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The restaurant was a dozen or so blocks farther than that, near Elmhurst, a new Korean barbecue house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Around the time that Shin and Park were formulating their escape plan, the North Korean government concluded that the border had become far too porous and posed a threat to internal security. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The pressure and length of her strokes steadily increase with his talk, which is now Korean. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “That is Korean people. We keep going even in the worst time, like when I take your dad to America and we grow, just the two of us. Always growing.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Nose tombs” in Japan still contain the noses cut off of 20,000 Koreans and brought to Japan as trophies of a 16th-century Japanese invasion of that country. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I remembered a day when I visited a Korean friend’s house in New Jersey. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “These were guys who had performed in the old environment at Korean Air for as much as fifteen to eighteen years,” he said. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “That’s because the North Koreans did not consider South Korean soldiers to be prisoners of war, protected under the Geneva Convention. Instead, they considered them to be fellow citizens who were committing war crimes.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z There was a sign with arrows pointing in each direction, but the words were written in English, not Korean. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Jinjoo bowed deeply and thanked the man and then noticed that he was a North Korean soldier. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Junior was drafted for the Korean War and was over there for three years. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The two smartest kids in my kindergarten class were Teddy, a Korean American boy, and Chiaka, an African American girl, who both would remain at the top of the class for years to come. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Please come this way,” he said to her stiffly in Korean, appearing from the hallway to the bedrooms. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z For dinner we went either to a Chinese place or the Indian one in the next town, and sometimes he drove to the city so we could eat Korean. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In a classroom with other defectors, he learned that the Korean War started when North Korea launched an unprovoked surprise invasion of the South on June 25,1950. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z And not because he’s a Stereotypical Korean Parent. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The lighted sign read H&J ENTERPRISES, with smaller Korean characters on the ends. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A second agreement in 1986 committed China to sending North Korean defectors back home, where they often face arrest, torture, and months or years of forced labor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z A correct understanding of who the Japanese people really are, and how they diverged from the closely related Korean people, will be essential to finding that common ground. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The North Koreans had shown no mercy, even to wounded men who could do no harm. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The counselor encouraged Shin to turn his therapeutic diary into the memoir that the Database Center published in Korean in 2007. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z John yells after her in Korean, calling her something I don’t understand. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I already mentioned that early Korean farming was relatively unproductive and resulted only in poor farmers outclassed by rich hunters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z South Korean distributors primarily distribute to South Korean retailers, effectively shutting everyone else out of the market. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z "It doesn't. ... I don't even know what it means that you're Korean." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z “The indifference of South Korean society to the issue of North Korean rights is so awful.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Korean ham-bah-gah,” she says, smiling, offering it with a small bowl of flavored soy. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Seven years later, when the North Korean government launched a disastrous currency reform that impoverished and enraged tens of thousands of traders, the news was reported within hours by Free North Korea Radio. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z China’s coastline is much smoother, and only the nearby Korean Peninsula attained separate importance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Uhmma and Grill Woman spoke in a language of mixed and chopped Korean and Japanese, glued together with pieces of English. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Besides, he told Kwang in Korean, this man bought the watch many months ago, during the winter, and he was being generous enough in offering him another one. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z If the Japanese really are recent arrivals from Korea, you might expect the Japanese and Korean languages to be very similar to each other. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He was how I imagined a Korean would be, at least one living in any renown. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z At Hanawon, many defectors flatly refuse to believe that this fundamental pillar of North Korean history is a lie. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z For example, the Korean steel industry is equal in efficiency to ours, but all other Korean industries lag behind their American counterparts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He does the lopsided smile again and agrees in Korean, which even I understand. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Mom was busy setting the food out on plates, so she couldn’t tell me how to say “thank you” to Wei in Korean. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z In the old Korean tradition, my presence in the kitchen was unwelcome unless I was actually eating, or passing through the room. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull had flown with Cecil Causey in the Korean War and had great respect for the man both as a commander and a pilot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In their genes and skeletons as well as in external appearance, the Japanese are very similar to other East Asians, including North Chinese, East Siberians, and especially Koreans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Your papa is thirsty,” she whispered in Korean, “go back to sleep.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He was fetching water from a brook near the farm when he met two other North Korean defectors. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Josh looked like the Korean genes had skipped him altogether. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z We had to be careful not to speak Korean to every Asian person who arrived, and because I was Korean I was regularly stationed to work at the greeting desk. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only is she not Korean, she is black. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z When defectors cross into China, the first “foreigners” they encounter are usually ethnic Koreans who speak the same language, eat similar food, and share some of the same cultural values. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Then he says something in Korean, and I have no idea what he said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z She tucked my little Korean Fire plant into the soil, and so I told her about its name and its story and about how it blooms, always, even in the winter. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z |
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