Sentence examples for Korean from high-quality English sources.

• "Defectors are South Korean citizens.

• Much of Korean culture exhibits a strong Chinese influence.

• One South Korean soldier and three North Korean border guards were killed.

• Our successful independent-director system and recent tax plans are a concerted effort by the Korean government to get firms to invest their cash reserves in the Korean economy.

• Korean shore batteries at times exchanged fire with ships entering Korean bays or rivers.

• These peoples formed the dominant ethnic foundation of the Korean people and developed the Korean language.

• South Korea, however, successfully resisted North Korean attempts at subversion, communist-supported guerrilla activities, and border raids by North Korean forces.

• In 1968 North Korean guerrillas on a mission to assassinate South Korean President Park Chung-Hee were stopped less than a mile from the presidential mansion in Seoul.

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• The Qing emperor confirmed the authority of the Korean rulers, approved the Korean choice of consorts and heirs, and bestowed noble ranks on Korean kings.

• South Korean officials might be helped by the wild popularity of Korean pop and television dramas and soap operas in the rest of Asia, part of the “Korean wave”.

• The day after America announced another $15m in emergency food aid for North Korea, North Korean officials met in New York with South Korean and American diplomats for talks about peace talks.

• North Korean cheerleaders, who had supported the unified Korean women’s ice hockey team, then showed up en masse to cheer on the South Korean men’s team in their defeat to the Czech Republic.

• The government-funded counter-hacker training program was conceived in 2010 when North Korean hackers were switching gears from only targeting South Korean government entities to attacking private sector bodies.

• The Korean phrase “nam nam buk nyeo” refers to the idea that North Korean women and South Korean men make the best mates—a term that hints at female bodies becoming a conduit for the larger reunification.

• North and South Korean athletes marched in the Winter Olympics opening ceremony under a unified flag as Kim Yo Hong, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s sister, was the first member of the dynasty to set foot in South Korea since the Korean War ended in 1953.

• But if Mr Jo has indeed defected, it will not impact inter-Korean relations, "unless Pyongyang thinks the escape was arranged by South Korean authorities", Koh Yu-hwan, a professor of North Korean studies at Dongguk University in Seoul, told the AFP news agency.

Korean sentence examples

• “The situation on the Korean Peninsula is so tense that a nuclear war may break out any moment” – so said the North Korean state media organisation on 23 August, as South Korean and US troops began their annual exercise simulating conflict across the divided nation.

• For detailed coverage of the visual art of East Asia, see Chinese art; Chinese bronzes; Chinese calligraphy; Chinese jade; Chinese lacquerwork; Chinese painting; Chinese pottery; Japanese art; Japanese calligraphy; Japanese pottery; Korean art; Korean calligraphy; and Korean pottery.

• Lee also called for abolishing government commissions that have investigated Korean collaborators during Japanese colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula in the early 20th century and human rights abuses by past South Korean military dictators — investigations that have angered the conservatives.

• A full-on tribute to Korean cuisine, The Farmhouse will offer a variety of popular Korean-style foods from spicy Korean fried chicken, pork and kimchi bao, bungeoppang – the fish-shaped pastry stuffed with sweetened red bean paste – as well as a barbecue station for instant Korean BBQ and ssam, or wrapping station, offering fresh vegetables, sauces and Korean banchan (side dishes).