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Korean Federation of Literature and Arts
The Korean Federation of Literature and Arts (조선문학예술총동맹, often abbreviated Munyechong) is North Korea's umbrella organization of writers and artists, founded in 1946 and re-founded in 1961.
Korean Folk Village
Korean Folk Village (한국민속촌) is an open-air museum and traditional-culture theme park in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, opened October 3, 1974 as Korea's first open-air museum, with about 270 relocated Joseon-era houses, craft workshops, folk performances, and historical drama filming.
Korean free verse
Korean free verse (자유시, jayusi) is poetry written without the fixed meter of traditional Korean forms, emerging in the mid-1910s as modern Korean poetry's founding form.
Korean fried chicken
Korean fried chicken (치킨, chikin): double-fried, starch-coated fried chicken from South Korea, with yangnyeom sweet-spicy or soy-garlic glazes; born of post-Korean War US influence, paired with beer as chimaek.
Korean honorifics
Korean honorifics (존댓말 jondaemal vs 반말 banmal) are the grammatical and lexical system marking deference to addressee, subject, and object via suffixes like -(u)si-, speech levels, and markers like -nim.
Korean idol
Korean idol (한국 아이돌): an agency-produced South Korean pop performer, typically in a K-pop group, defined by the trainee system dating from 1990s agencies like SM, distinct from Japan's developmental idol model.
Korean Independence Army
The Korean Independence Army (대한독립군) was a Korean armed force led by Hong Beom-do, based at Fengwudong in Manchuria, that fought Japanese colonial rule in 1919 and 1920.
Korean Independence League
Korean Independence League is the English name for two Korean anti-Japanese organizations of the 1940s, one founded underground in Korea in 1944 and one in Yan'an, China in 1942.
Korean independence movement
Korean independence movement (민족독립운동): Korean resistance to Japanese imperialist rule from the 1876 port openings to liberation on August 15, 1945, spanning righteous armies, the 1919 March First Movement, the Shanghai Provisional Government, and armed exile struggle.
Korean Independence Party
The Korean Independence Party was a Korean nationalist party founded in Shanghai in 1930 by figures of the Korean Provisional Government and refounded in Chongqing in 1940 under Kim Ku.
Korean independence petition movement at the League of Nations
A diplomatic campaign begun in 1919 in which Korean activists petitioned the Paris Peace Conference and the League of Nations to free Korea from Japanese rule.
Korean Jindo
Korean Jindo (진돗개), also Jindo-kae or Korea Jindo Dog, a medium-sized Spitz-type hunting and guarding dog from Jindo Island, South Korea; FCI standard No. 334, six coat colors, National Treasure 1938, Natural Monument 1962.
Korean Kanakaraju
Korean Kanakaraju (కొరియన్ కనకరాజు) is a 2026 Telugu horror comedy directed by Merlapaka Gandhi, starring Varun Tej, Ritika Nayak, and Satya; a Korean gangster's spirit possesses a Rayalaseema youth, released 7 August 2026 and on Netflix 4 September 2026.
Korean knots
Korean knots, or maedeup (매듭), are the traditional craft of tying dyed silk cords into decorative knots used on norigae hanbok pendants, tassels, and court items, with Neolithic origins, Joseon court artisans, and designated heritage holders.
Korean Labor Federation
The Korean Labor Federation (조선노동연맹회) was a nationwide colonial Korean labor organization, reorganized in 1922 from Korea's first national labor body, the 1920 Mutual Aid Society.
Korean Land Survey
The Korean Land Survey (조선 토지조사사업) was a cadastral survey of all land in Korea by the Japanese colonial Government-General from 1910 to 1918, reorganizing land rights around registered ownership.
Korean language
Korean (한국어/조선말) is the official language of both Koreas, an agglutinative SOV language with elaborate honorifics, written in Hangul, the phonetic alphabet created under King Sejong and introduced in 1446 after centuries of hanja-based writing.
Korean Language Society
The Korean Language Society (조선어학회) was a Korean scholarly organization founded in 1921 that studied and standardized the Korean language, compiling the Joseonmal Geunsa-jeon dictionary.
Korean Language Society incident
The Korean Language Society incident (조선어학회 사건) was the October 1942 arrest and torture of Korean Language Society members by Japanese colonial police on fabricated charges, killing two scholars in prison.
Korean Liberation Army
Korean Liberation Army (한국광복군), regular army of the Provisional Government of Korea, founded 17 September 1940 in Chongqing under Ji Cheong-cheon; fought with the Allies and OSS, reached about 700-800 members, and its veterans seeded the ROK armed forces.
Korean martial arts
Korean martial arts (한국 무술): taekwondo, hapkido, taekkyeon, tangsoodo, gumdo. Taekwondo, defined by kicking techniques, is Korea's national martial art, an Olympic medal sport since Sydney 2000, certified by the Kukkiwon and governed internationally by World Taekwondo.
Korean Martyrs
The Korean Martyrs, also called the Martyrs of Korea, are Catholics killed for their faith in Joseon Korea between 1791 and the 1870s, including the first Korean priest, Andrew Kim Taegon.
Korean migration to Manchuria
Korean migration to Manchuria was the settlement of Koreans in northeast China, especially Gando, from the 1860s through 1945, creating the base of the independence movement.
Korean Military Advisory Group
The Korean Military Advisory Group (KMAG) was the US Army advisory mission that organized, trained, and equipped the South Korean armed forces from 1949 through the Korean War.
Korean Music Awards (한국대중음악상)
Korean Music Awards (한국대중음악상, KMA), South Korea's critics-judged annual popular music awards since March 2004, run by the Korean Music Awards Selection Committee; honors albums and songs in 26 categories, unlike sales- or fan-vote-driven ceremonies.
Korean mythology
Korean mythology (한국 신화) comprises written founding myths of ancient kingdoms like the Dangun myth of Gojoseon and orally transmitted shamanic myths, unified by the theme of a sacred being becoming first king.
Korean name
Korean names put the surname first, then a two-syllable given name, with no middle name. Kim, Lee, and Park cover nearly half the population; names carry bon-gwan clan seats, generation syllables, and hanja meanings.
Korean National Association
The Korean National Association (대한인국민회) was the unified organization of Korean communities in the Americas, founded in San Francisco in 1909 to restore Korean sovereignty and support the independence movement.
Korean National Revolutionary Party
The Korean National Revolutionary Party (조선민족혁명당) was a party of Korean independence activists in China, founded in Nanjing in 1935 and led by Kim Won-bong.
Korean National Youth Corps
The Korean National Youth Corps (대한청년단), romanized Daehan Cheongnyeondan, was a right-wing anti-communist youth organization created by President Syngman Rhee in December 1948 and dissolved in 1953.