# Korea

Korea, called Hanguk in South Korea and Chosŏn in North Korea, is a geographical region of Northeastern Eurasia that is divided into two distinct countries:

## Quotes

* The people are well built and strong, as a rule. They are a loyal, contented race, not grasping, and rather too easy in disposition. They are intelligent and learn with great ease. Possessed of many characteristics in common with their neighbors, the Chinese and Japanese, they yet seem to have a personality indicative of a different parentage, which continually calls forth inquiry as to their origin. In some slight degree they resemble the aborigines of America, and it is believed that their ancestors came from the north:—the question opens up a fertile field for study. Their written records are said to date back three thousand years.
** Horace Newton Allen, Korean Tales (1889)
* The tragedy of Korea is further heightened by the fact that its military action is confined to its territorial limits. It condemns that nation, which it is our purpose to save, to suffer the devastating impact of full naval and air bombardment while the enemy's sanctuaries are fully protected from such attack and devastation. Of the nations of the world, Korea alone, up to now, is the sole one which has risked its all against communism. The magnificence of the courage and fortitude of the Korean people defies description. They have chosen to risk death rather than slavery. Their last words to me were: 'Don't scuttle the Pacific!'
** Douglas MacArthur, farewell address to a Joint Session of Congress (19 April 1951)
* In Germany, it's, let's say it's 5:59 and you're heading for the bakery or whatever and it's due to close at 6. The German will walk right up to that door and close it right in your face, they will lock it on the other side of that glass door with a shrug, like "sorry". A Korean would never do that, ever. And, and this is what I like about them.
** Brian Reynolds Myers, interview with Colin Marshall (February 2015)
* If we are weak, our country will be in jeopardy. It is the living lesson of human history of the rise and fall of nations. In order for a country not to fall, it must cultivate its own strength.
** Chung-hee Park, as quoted in Toward Peaceful Unification: Selected Speeches & Interviews (1978), Kwangmyong Publishing Company, p. 3
* “How can the Korean people, who have lived in one territory and one region for five millennia, now have nothing to do with each other just because [the Korean Communist Régime] banned unification songs?”
** An anonymous North Pyongan Province resident as quoted in "North Korea bans more than 100 patriotic songs that refer to reunification", Radio Free Asia (February 21, 2024)
** In the Korean version: 한갓 통일노래를 금지한다고 반만년동안 한 영토, 한 지맥에서 살아온 우리민족이 남남이 될 수 있겠냐?

## See also

Other pages related to this topic include the following:
* Korea under Imperial Japanese rule
* Korean proverbs
* Korean War
* North Korea
* Racism in South Korea
* South Korea

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