In Popular Culture
- Champion, a South Korean biopic about Kim's life, was released in 2002.
- Alternative rock group Sun Kil Moon recorded a song dedicated to Kim on their 2003 debut Ghosts of the Great Highway.
- Duk Koo Kim and Ray Mancini are featured in the song "Boom Boom Mancini" by Warren Zevon.
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“For those that love the world serve it in action,
Grow rich, popular and full of influence,
And should they paint or write, still it is action:
The struggle of the fly in marmalade.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)