Such hyperbole used to be confined to Kim Myong-chol, a Korean in Japan seen as a North Korean spokesman.
The Korean director Hong Sang-soo films the boredom and frustration of a Korean in Paris with exquisite style, self-excoriating confessional audacity, and keen cultural criticism.
He points out that they do not speak traditional Korean in North Korea, they speak their own dialect and traditional Korean is forbidden.
"We are so proud of Psy; he is the most famous Korean in the world.
"This is the first time I've spoken Korean in four months," he said.
He delivered his sermon in Korean, in a dramatic style laced with passionate outbursts and whispers.
It also shines in Asian cuisines, particularly Korean, in which it's seared and served rare.
The Korean in lane one... if she does that again she'll be out.
Even attempting to contact relatives in the north would have landed a South Korean in trouble.
"I learned to read and write Korean in three or four hours from YouTube.
But before long Toth was studying Korean, in order to understand the lyrics and also Korean TV shows.
