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In Korea, the director is on top, and the power flows down vertically. On the set, I love to come up with ideas on the spot. But in Hollywood, if I were to come up with a certain idea on set, the idea had to be taken to all these different people who had to agree.
Kim Jee-woon
Love
Director
People
Power
Down
Top
Had
Taken
Idea
Come
Ideas
Spot
Korea
Were
Up
Vertically
Different
Hollywood
Certain
Different People
Who
Agree
Set
Flows
Our cause is just, and the might of Korea that is united with truth is infinite.
Kim Jong-un
Truth
Truth Is
Cause
Our
Korea
Infinite
Just
Might
United
Our young people are patriots and heroes whom we can be proud of before the world; that they have a large contingent of such trustworthy young people is a great blessing for the Workers' Party of Korea and a source of pride for Korea, and this assures the great strength of our dignified state and its bright future.
Kim Jong-un
Future
Strength
Great
Blessing
People
World
Pride
Heroes
Party
Before
Young
State
Dignified
Our
Proud
Korea
Contingent
Source
Trustworthy
Patriots
Young People
Workers
Large
Whom
Bright
Bright Future
The new year 2015 will be a year of great significance, in which we will mark the 70th anniversaries of national liberation and founding of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Kim Jong-un
Great
Will
Party
Year
National
Mark
Liberation
Significance
Anniversary
New
Korea
New Year
Which
Workers
Founding
The single-hearted unity is the lifeblood of Juche Korea and the dynamic force for a leap forward, and we must invariably follow the road of self-reliance and self-development - this is the invaluable truth of the Juche revolution confirmed by our army's and people's gigantic struggle in 2016.
Kim Jong-un
Truth
Struggle
Army
People
Revolution
Unity
Our
Gigantic
Must
Follow
Invaluable
Invariably
Lifeblood
Road
Self-Development
Leap
Force
Korea
Self-Reliance
Confirmed
Dynamic
Forward
No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.
Kim Jong Il
Class
Better
Poison
Party
Other
Our
Worse
Destroys
Faction
Come
Korea
Mould
Than
Same
Any
Movement
Influence
Capitalist
Working
Products
Working-Class
Handwritten political posters - often composed in an artless and unadorned style, usually just words on plain white paper - were ubiquitous in South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s and were one of the few outlets available for expressing political views. Most posters were anonymous and put up under the cover of night.
Kim Young-ha
Words
Political
Style
Few
White
Paper
Composed
Posters
Outlets
Put
Most
Anonymous
Korea
Cover
Were
South
Up
South Korea
Political Views
Often
Just
Available
Plain
Views
Expressing
Night
In the early 2000s, people expected that anonymity on the Internet would be positive for the development of democracy in South Korea. In a Confucian culture like South Korea's, hierarchy can block the free exchange of opinions in face-to-face situations. The web offered a way around that.
Kim Young-ha
Positive
Democracy
Culture
People
Internet
Free
Way
Hierarchy
Would
Would-Be
Face-To-Face
Web
Exchange
Development
Like
Anonymity
Around
Opinions
Korea
Block
South
South Korea
Offered
Expected
Situations
Early
All of North Korea is a jail.
Kim Young-sam
Korea
North
North Korea
Jail
I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.
Kim Young-sam
Will
Think
Deal
Korea
Korean
Issue
South
South Korea
North
North Korean
Current
Regime
Actively
If I walk in the street in Korea, I am recognized.
Kim Yuna
Walk
Recognized
Korea
Am
Street
If we had made it clear from the very beginning that we were not going to tolerate another nuclear power on the face of the earth, and had done it in Korea, where we could have accomplished it militarily, if necessary, I would put a stop to it and would have put a stop to it there.
Lawrence Eagleburger
Made
Face
Power
Beginning
Earth
Would
Could
Had
Put
Clear
Another
Korea
Were
Accomplished
Very
Done
Going
Stop
Where
Tolerate
Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Necessary
Hollywood has a longer pre-production period and they juggle shooting schedules more carefully for each cast. In Korea, we shoot day and night without much break.
Lee Byung-hun
Day
Carefully
More
Cast
Schedules
Day And Night
Longer
Period
Without
Korea
Juggle
Pre-Production
Shoot
Shooting
Break
Hollywood
Much
Each
Night
Because North Korea was so totally cut off, we didn't hear anything of the outside world. We had only one TV channel, which showed only propaganda, and we believed everything.
Lee Hyeon-seo
World
Channel
Everything
TV
Propaganda
Totally
Only
Outside
Outside World
Had
Because
Korea
Hear
Off
North
North Korea
Anything
Which
Cut
Believed
The TED talk I gave, that gave me another character I didn't know about. I'm not saying the mind of a hero, but a kind of responsibility. Every word I'm speaking, it's not from myself. I'm speaking for and representing the people of communist North Korea.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Saying
Myself
Character
Me
People
Word
Hero
Mind
Responsibility
Every
Gave
Kind
About
Know
Talk
Another
Korea
North
North Korea
Representing
Communist
Speaking
Ted
My family lived under communism their entire lives. When they arrived in South Korea, they didn't even know how to use the bank system and ATM or the subway, nothing.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Family
Communism
Nothing
System
ATM
Entire
Entire Lives
Know
How
Korea
Arrived
South
South Korea
Bank
Subway
Use
Even
Lived
Lives
When I was little, I thought my country was the best on the planet. And I grew up singing a song called 'Nothing To Envy.' And I was very proud. In school, we spent a lot of time studying the history of Kim Il-Sung, but we never learned much about the outside world, except that America, South Korea, Japan are the enemies.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Time
Best
History
Song
World
School
Envy
Enemies
Thought
Country
Singing
Nothing
Spent
Kim
About
Except
Outside
Never
Outside World
Studying
Learned
Proud
Korea
South
Lot
Up
South Korea
Very
America
The History Of
Grew
Little
Japan
Much
Planet
I defected to South Korea in search of freedom of speech and movement. I had longed to put my feet on this soil, even in my dreams.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Dreams
Freedom
Soil
Freedom Of Speech
Had
Put
Feet
Korea
South
South Korea
Movement
Search
Even
Speech
A huge famine hit North Korea in the mid-1990s. Ultimately, more than a million North Koreans died during the famine, and many only survived by eating grass, bugs, and tree bark.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Grass
Tree
Eating
More
Only
Bugs
Korea
Koreans
Ultimately
Huge
Hit
Than
Survived
North
North Korea
Died
Famine
Bark
Many
Million
We refugees, we become always a punchbag. A political punchbag between China and South Korea and North Korea.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Political
Become
Between
Always
Korea
South
South Korea
North
North Korea
Refugees
China
I just wanted to see China with my own eyes. I wanted to see whether North Korea was the best country in the world or China was the best. I grew up believing that China was much worse than North Kore, because that's what the regime told us.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Best
Eyes
World
Country
Own
Worse
See
My Own
Because
Korea
Up
Than
North
North Korea
Just
Wanted
Grew
Whether
Regime
China
Us
Much
Believing
Here in South Korea, I'm continuing to learn English in order to boost my prospects. When North Korean defectors try to get a job to stabilize their lives, their lack of English is a handicap. It was the same story while I was living in China. It took an enormous amount of time and enthusiasm to learn Chinese.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Time
Try
Job
Enthusiasm
Living
Enormous
Took
Boost
Prospects
Learn
Korea
Korean
Continuing
South
South Korea
Handicap
North
Get
Same
North Korean
Stabilize
Lack
Same Story
Order
Story
While
China
Chinese
English
Lives
Amount
Here
My mom told me many times how I need to be careful living inside the regime. We didn't say 'the regime.' We didn't even say 'North Korea.'
Lee Hyeon-seo
Mom
Me
Living
Say
Be Careful
Inside
How
Korea
Times
North
North Korea
Regime
Many
Even
Need
Careful
I believe I'll see the reunification of North and South Korea in my lifetime and that defectors should play a role in rebuilding the country. In the long run, I want to return to North Korea, because that's where I belong.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Long
Country
Believe
Run
See
Lifetime
Long Run
Return
Reunification
Because
Korea
South
South Korea
North
Role
North Korea
Where
Want
Should
Rebuilding
Play
Belong
In North Korea, we learnt all Americans are the enemy; they are not human.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Enemy
All Americans
Learnt
Korea
North
American
North Korea
Human
I want to see reunified Korean peninsula, and I believe that the majority of Koreans in both countries want to see Korea become whole again.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Become
Believe
Peninsula
See
Both
Countries
Majority
Korea
Korean
Korean Peninsula
Koreans
Want
Again
Whole
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