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Ko Un
Ko Un (고은) is a South Korean poet born in 1933, a former Buddhist monk known for Maninbo (Ten Thousand Lives), a 30-volume cycle of 4,001 poems.
Ko Willems
Ko Willems (Jacobus Matheus Willems, 1900–1983), Dutch track cyclist; won gold in the men's 50 km track race at Paris 1924 in 1:18:24.0 using a Jan Maas domestique tactic; later ran an Amsterdam bike store.
Ko Yong Suk (고용숙)
Ko Yong Suk (고용숙) is Kim Jong Un's maternal aunt, sister of Ko Yong Hui, who cared for him in Switzerland and defected to the United States via the Geneva embassy in May 1998, later suing defectors over claims about her family.
Ko Yong-hui (고용희)
Ko Yong-hui (고용희), Osaka-born Zainichi Korean dancer, consort of Kim Jong-il and mother of Kim Jong-chol, Kim Jong-un, and Kim Yo-jong; subject of a 2002 "respected mother" campaign, died of breast cancer in 2004, her origins suppressed by the regime.
KO52
KO52 (K052, K-052, CVCL_1321) is a human acute myeloid leukemia cell line from the relapse bone marrow of a 46-year-old Japanese man, carrying DNMT3A, NRAS, and homozygous TP53 p.Arg248Trp mutations, distributed as JCRB0123 and used in DepMap, CCLE, and pharmacogenomic datasets.
Koa (web framework)
Koa is an HTTP middleware framework for Node.js using async functions, designed by the team behind Express as a smaller foundation for web applications and APIs.
Kōa-kai
Kōa-kai (興亜会, "Raising Asia Society") was Japan's first pan-Asianist organization, founded in Tokyo in 1880 to promote cooperation among Japan, Qing China, and Korea; it was renamed the Asia Association in 1883.
Koala
Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), an arboreal marsupial of eastern Australia, closest relative the wombat, feeding almost entirely on eucalypt leaves; endangered under the EPBC Act in QLD, NSW and ACT since February 2022, with chlamydia, habitat loss and heat as key threats.
Koala Man
Koala Man is a 2023 American-Australian adult animated superhero sitcom created by Michael Cusack for Hulu, starring Cusack, Sarah Snook, and Hugh Jackman in eight episodes.
Kōami school
The Kōami school (幸阿弥家) was a hereditary Japanese lineage of maki-e lacquer artists serving as official maki-e masters from the Muromachi period through the Edo period.
Koan
A koan, also called Zen kōan or kong-an (Chinese gong'an, "public case"), is a brief story or dialogue from Chan and Zen Buddhism, used in meditation to provoke awakening.
Kōan campaign
The Kōan campaign (弘安の役) was the second Mongol invasion of Japan, launched in 1281 by Yuan forces of Khubilai Khan, whose fleet of about 140,000 men was almost annihilated by a typhoon near Takashima.
KOAN Sound
KOAN Sound is an English electronic music duo from Bristol, formed in 2008 by producers Jim Bastow and Will Weeks, known for detailed, cinematic bass music.
Kōan-era defense wall (Ishibashi) construction orders
The Kōan-era defense wall construction orders (石築地の構築) were 1276 directives by the Kamakura shogunate ordering Kyushu's nine provinces to build a 20 km stone wall along Hakata Bay against a renewed Mongol invasion.
Koasati oral literature
Koasati oral literature is the body of traditional narratives told in the Koasati language by the Coushatta people of Louisiana, first documented in 1910 and collected in Koasati Traditional Narratives (2010).
Koastle
Koastle is an American electronic music duo from Orange County, California, formed of Andy Mueller and Brett Beaudette, who released their debut album in 2025.
Koati (film)
Koati is a 2021 Mexican-American 2D-animated musical film directed by Rodrigo Pérez-Castro, produced by Anabella Sosa-Dovarganes with Sofía Vergara as executive producer and voice of villain Zaina; it follows coati Nachi and friends in the Land of Xo and spawned a 2025 Netflix series.
Kobalt (satellite)
Kobalt-M, also known as Yantar-4K2M, was a Russian film-return photographic reconnaissance satellite, the final version of the Yantar-4K2 series, launched ten times from Plesetsk between 2004 and 2015.
Kobalt Music Group
Kobalt Music Group, also known as Kobalt Music, is a London-based independent music publishing and rights-management company founded by Willard Ahdritz around 2000, known for its KTech platform.
Kobayakawa Hideaki (小早川秀秋)
Kobayakawa Hideaki (小早川秀秋), also known as Kingo Chunagon, was a Japanese daimyo whose 1600 defection decided the Battle of Sekigahara; rewarded with Okayama, he died without an heir in 1602.
Kobayakawa Takakage
Kobayakawa Takakage (小早川隆景, 1533–1597) was a Japanese Sengoku military commander and daimyo, son of Mōri Motonari, who served as a senior councilor of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's regime.
Kobayashi Hideo
Kobayashi Hideo (小林秀雄, 1902–1983) was a Japanese literary critic, born in Tokyo, who established modern literary criticism in Japan and dominated the field in the 1930s.
Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶)
Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶, 1763–1827), real name Kobayashi Yatarō, was an Edo-period haikai poet from Kashiwabara, Shinano, who left about 20,000 hokku in his humorous colloquial "Issa-chō" style and wrote Father's Last-Days Diary and Ora ga Haru.
Kobayashi Maru
The Kobayashi Maru (小林丸) is the no-win Starfleet Academy command training exercise in Star Trek, first shown in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982); cadets must try to rescue a stranded freighter inside the Klingon Neutral Zone knowing the attempt is doomed, and only Kirk beat it by reprogramming the simulator.
Kobayashi Takiji
Kobayashi Takiji (小林多喜二, 1903 to 1933) was a Japanese proletarian novelist and Communist Party member whose novella Kanikōsen became a defining left-wing work; he died under police torture in Tokyo.
Kobbi Nissim
Kobbi Nissim is a computer scientist, professor at Georgetown University, and co-introducer of differential privacy, the privacy framework used in the 2020 US Census; he won the 2017 Gödel Prize.
Kobe (神戸)
Kobe (神戸) is a designated city in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, on Osaka Bay between the Rokko mountains and the sea. Port opened 1868; 1,494,997 residents in 2025; rebuilt after the 1995 earthquake.
KOBE Animal Kingdom
KOBE Animal Kingdom (神戸どうぶつ王国) is an all-weather animal and botanical park on Port Island, Kobe, opened July 2014 on the former Kobe Flower and Bird Garden site, with a 15,000 m² glasshouse, 130 animal species, and hands-on feeding and bird shows.
Kobe beef
Kobe beef (神戸ビーフ, KOBE BEEF) is certified wagyu from purebred Tajima cattle raised and slaughtered in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, meeting BMS 6+, meat quality 4+, yield A/B, and carcass weight limits; defined in 1983, GI Registration No. 3, under 0.2% of Japan's beef market.
Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant was an American basketball player who spent 20 seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers. He won five NBA championships and the 2008 MVP award.