from the book

Michael Breen. The Koreans: who they are, what they want, where their future lies. St. Martin's Press, NY, NY. 1998.

p. 3-4
The local media can be extremely misleading as a source of information. They generally do not see their role as a check on government and business, with the result that government intensions are frequently reported as facts a huge proportion of news stories, when you follow them up, turns out to be speculation, trial balloons, rumour, and deliberate distortion.

"you need a high-level bullshit indicator to figure out what's going on."

p. 29
Rushing parallel to this stupidity was a gushing torrent of bonhommie characteristic of Koreans in which accuracy is a distant second to feeling."

labelling without significant purpose, be cool people, be cool. don't be hot-heads, there are plenty of rednecks out there, you don't have to be another.

p.32
Most Koreans would crawl a million miles over broken glass for their mothers, but not for their fathers.

Most Korean mothers would do far... far more than that for their Kids... Steelers' WR Hines Ward surely agree with this.

p. 33
They approach the world with a personal confidence, but with clenched fists.

The ghost that haunts us will continuously do so if we don't break the chain.