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Korean Air incidents and accidents
The Korean Air incidents and accidents are the crashes and serious incidents of Korean Air since the 1980s, including the 1983 Flight 007 shootdown with 269 dead.
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (대한항공 007편)
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (대한항공 007편) was a New York to Seoul Boeing 747 shot down by a Soviet interceptor on September 1, 1983, killing all 269 aboard.
Korean Air Lines Flight 902
Korean Air Lines Flight 902 was a Paris-to-Seoul passenger flight whose Boeing 707 strayed into Soviet airspace in 1978, was fired on by Su-15 interceptors, and crash-landed on a frozen lake, killing two of 110 aboard.
Korean American literature
Korean American literature is writing by writers of Korean descent in the United States, from Younghill Kang in the 1930s to Chang-rae Lee and Min Jin Lee.
Korean Americans (한국계 미국인)
Korean Americans (한국계 미국인) are U.S. residents of Korean origin, the fifth-largest Asian origin group at about 2 million in 2023, 56% foreign-born, centered in California, with immigration waves from 1903 Hawaii plantations, 1950s war brides, and post-1965 professionals.
Korean Anarchist Federation
The Korean Anarchist Federation was an organization of Korean anarchists active during the Japanese colonial period, whose national body, the Korean Anarchist Communist Federation, was formed in November 1929.
Korean anarchist movement
The Korean anarchist movement (한국 무정부주의 운동) was the organized adoption of anarchism by Koreans resisting Japanese colonial rule, first among exiles in China and Japan after the 1919 independence movement.
Korean Armistice Agreement
Korean Armistice Agreement (정전협정), the July 27, 1953 military ceasefire signed at Panmunjom by the UN Command and the Korean People's Army with Chinese People's Volunteers; no nation signed, no peace treaty followed, and it created the DMZ.
Korean axe murder incident
Korean axe murder incident (판문점 도끼살인사건): killing of US Capt. Bonifas and Lt. Barrett by North Korean soldiers with axes on 18 August 1976 in the Panmunjom JSA over tree trimming, answered by Operation Paul Bunyan.
Korean barbecue
Korean barbecue (K-BBQ; 고기구이) is dining where meat such as bulgogi, galbi, and samgyeopsal is grilled at the table's center with banchan. It differs from American barbecue by tabletop cooking, shared grills, skewer-derived jeok roots, and group-coded social ritual.
Korean Broadcasting System (한국방송공사)
Korean Broadcasting System (한국방송공사, KBS) is South Korea's national backbone public broadcaster, founded 1973 from 1927 Keijō Station roots, funded mainly by a TV reception fee, running KBS1, KBS2, radio, and KBS WORLD from Yeoui-do, Seoul.
Korean Buddhism
Korean Buddhism (한국불교) is the Buddhist tradition of the Korean peninsula, nearly 1,700 years old, centered on Seon meditation and led by the Jogye Order, whose Tripitaka Koreana is a scholarly standard.
Korean calendar
The Korean calendar is the traditional lunisolar calendar of Korea, with lunar months and 24 solar terms; South Korea uses the Gregorian calendar for civil purposes, but Seollal and Chuseok follow lunar dates.
Korean Central Broadcasting Station
Korean Central Broadcasting Station (조선중앙방송, KCBS) is the principal domestic radio service of North Korea, broadcasting from Pyongyang since 1945 under the control of the Workers' Party's Propaganda and Agitation Department.
Korean Coast Guard
The Korean Coast Guard (해양경찰청) is South Korea's maritime law enforcement agency, created in 1953 and independent since 1996, responsible for policing territorial waters, search and rescue, and maritime crime investigation.
Korean Communist Party
The Korean Communist Party (조선공산당) was an underground party founded in colonial Seoul on April 17, 1925, affiliated with the Comintern and broken by Japanese arrests by 1928.
Korean conflict
The Korean conflict, also called the Inter-Korean conflict or 6·25 War, began on June 25, 1950, and ended in a 1953 armistice with no peace treaty ever signed.
Korean Constabulary
The Korean Constabulary (조선경비대, 朝鮮警備隊) was a paramilitary force created by the US Army Military Government in Korea in 1946 to maintain internal security, becoming the nucleus of the Republic of Korea Army in 1948.
Korean cuisine
Korean cuisine (한식, hansik) is the traditional food of the Korean Peninsula, defined by fermentation: kimchi, jang sauces, and jeotgal, developed in geographic isolation and promoted globally since the 2008 Global Hansik Campaign.
Korean Data Assimilation and Prediction System
The Korean Data Assimilation and Prediction System is the family of operational numerical weather prediction systems run by the Korea Meteorological Administration, including GDAPS, RDAPS, and LDAPS.
Korean Demilitarized Zone
Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ): 248 km long, 4 km wide buffer along the Military Demarcation Line, created by the 1953 Armistice; heavily fortified, mine-filled, and an accidental wildlife refuge.
Korean Democratic Party
The Korean Democratic Party (한국민주당), commonly abbreviated Hanmin-dang, was a right-wing political party founded in Seoul in September 1945 that helped establish a separate government under Syngman Rhee.
Korean Democratic Women's Union
The Korean Democratic Women's Union (조선민주여성동맹) is North Korea's mass organization for women, founded in 1945 and renamed the Socialist Women's Union of Korea in 2016.
Korean dialects
Korean dialects (방언): regional varieties of Korean in six traditional areas (northwestern, northeastern, central, southwestern, southeastern, Jeju). Standard Korean is Seoul-based; Jeju speech is only ~12% intelligible to mainlanders and UNESCO-listed critically endangered.
Korean diaspora
Korean diaspora (재외동포): about 7 million people of Korean descent in 181 countries, formed by colonial-era migration to Japan, Manchuria, and Sakhalin, post-1960s emigration to North America, and a 200,000-strong adoptee diaspora.
Korean dragon
Korean dragon (yong, 龍; native mireu, 미르): water deity, royal symbol, and one of Korea's Four Divinities, with native names like imugi and yeongno, Silla hoguk-dragon lore, and ascension folktales.
Korean drama (한국 드라마)
Korean drama (한국 드라마), or K-drama, is South Korean television drama. Grew from 1960s TV (KBS 1961, MBC 1969), spread to China in 1997, and became a top export; China banned it unofficially in 2016.
Korean embassies to Edo
The Korean embassies to Edo (朝鮮通信使) were twelve Joseon diplomatic missions sent to Japan's Tokugawa shogunate between 1607 and 1811, usually to congratulate a new shogun.
Korean Empire (대한제국)
The Korean Empire (대한제국, Daehan Jeguk) was the independent Korean state proclaimed by Emperor Gojong in 1897, whose modernization reforms ended with Japanese annexation in 1910.
Korean Englishman (영국남자)
Korean Englishman (영국남자) is a YouTube channel created 7 June 2013 by British creators Josh Carrott and Oliver Kendal, introducing Korean food and culture to British audiences in Korean and English; about 6.2 million subscribers, with a second channel, Jolly.