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Korean nationalism
Korean nationalism (민족주의) is the modern ideology of constituting and mobilizing the Korean nation. Born in resistance to Japanese colonial rule and crystallized by the 1919 March First Movement, it took ethnic form and split into South Korean developmental nationalism and North Korean Juche after 1945.
Korean New Year (설날)
Korean New Year, called Seollal (설날), is the first day of the year in the Korean lunisolar calendar and a major holiday in South Korea.
Korean Novelists' Association
The Korean Novelists' Association (한국소설가협회) is a South Korean association of fiction writers founded in 1974; it describes itself as the only organization composed solely of novelists.
Korean Patriotic Organization
The Korean Patriotic Organization (한인애국단, Hanin Aegukdan) was a secret anti-Japanese organ of the Korean Provisional Government, founded under Kim Koo in Shanghai in 1931.
Korean Peasant Federation
The Korean Peasant Federation (조선농민총동맹, 朝鮮農民總同盟) was the nationwide leadership body of the peasant movement in colonial Korea, formed in 1927 by splitting the Korean Labor-Farmer General Federation.
Korean People's Army (조선인민군)
The Korean People's Army (조선인민군) is the armed forces of North Korea, founded in 1948. It is one of the world's largest militaries and recently deployed troops to Russia in 2024.
Korean People's Army Air and Anti-Air Force
Korean People's Army Air and Anti-Air Force (KPAF), North Korea's air arm: over 110,000 personnel, 810 combat aircraft of mostly Soviet-era types, dense but dated air defense, and new AEW, drone, and SAM modernization.
Korean People's Army Ground Force (조선인민군 륙군)
The Korean People's Army Ground Force (조선인민군 륙군) is North Korea's army branch, founded February 1948, with about 1.1 million troops, 13,500 artillery pieces, and most forces forward-deployed near the DMZ.
Korean People's Navy
Korean People's Navy (조선인민군 해군, KPAN): North Korea's naval service, historically a coastal-defense force of two fleet commands and 64-86 mostly aging submarines, now modernizing with nuclear-armed submarines and the 5,000-ton Choe Hyon-class destroyers.
Korean People's Party
The Korean People's Party (조선인민당), also translated People's Party of Korea, was a center-left party founded by Lyuh Woon-hyung in Seoul in 1945 to end left-right polarization.
Korean phonology
Korean phonology (국어 음운론) is the sound system of Korean, from Middle Korean tone to Modern Korean length and a three-way obstruent contrast, studied through Hangul-era records and Seoul-standard synchronic description.
Korean pine nut oil
Korean pine nut oil (PinnoThin) is edible oil from Pinus koraiensis seeds, rich in pinolenic acid (14–19% of fatty acids); US GRAS via GRN 332 (2010), rat NOAEL 15% diet, studied for appetite and lipid effects.
Korean Poets' Association
The Korean Poets' Association (한국시인협회), officially the Society of Korean Poets, is a South Korean organization of modern poets founded in 1957 by Cho Chi-hun and Park Nam-su.
Korean Production Movement
The Korean Production Movement (물산장려 운동) was an economic self-reliance campaign in colonial Korea urging Koreans to buy Korean-made goods, begun in Pyongyang in 1920 by Cho Man-sik.
Korean profanity
Korean profanity (욕설, yoksŏl) comprises taboo and offensive Korean expressions. Sources cover its typology, NAVER comment usage, song-lyric evasion of censorship, altered forms that foil detection, and learner exposure.
Korean R&B underground (Crush, Dean era)
The Korean R&B underground was a 2010s Seoul movement of languid, self-produced R&B made outside the idol system, anchored by Crush and Dean and spread through independent labels and crews.
Korean railway expansion under Japanese rule
Korean railway expansion under Japanese rule was the construction of Korea's railways by Japan from the 1890s to 1945, producing Asia's most developed rail system outside Japan.
Korean Register
The Korean Register (한국선급, KR) is a non-profit ship classification society founded in 1960 and headquartered in Busan, South Korea, and a full member of IACS.
Korean reunification
Korean reunification: the proposed unification of North and South Korea, divided since 1945 and technically still at war since the 1953 armistice. Marked by 1972 joint statement, 2000 summit, and North Korea's 2023-2024 abandonment of reunification under its two hostile states policy.
Korean Service Medal
Korean Service Medal: US service medal established by Executive Order 10179 on November 8, 1950, for 30 consecutive or 60 nonconsecutive days in the Korean Theater, June 27, 1950 to July 27, 1954, with ten campaign stars; distinct from the UN Korea Medal and ROK War Service Medal.
Korean shamanism
Korean shamanism, also known as Muism or musok, is Korea's native religion in which mudang shamans perform gut rituals mediating between clients and gods, ancestors, and the dead.
Korean Sign Language (한국수어)
Korean Sign Language (한국수어, 한국수화언어), ISO 639-3 kvk, is the visual-gestural language of South Korea's deaf community, declared the official language of the deaf with national-language status by the 한국수화언어법.
Korean Social Democratic Party (조선사회민주당)
The Korean Social Democratic Party (조선사회민주당) is one of North Korea's two nominal satellite parties, founded in 1945 as the Korean Democratic Party and renamed in 1981, supporting Workers' Party policies.
Korean Teachers' Credit Union (KTCU)
The Korean Teachers' Credit Union (한국교직원공제회) is a South Korean mutual-aid institution for teachers and education employees, established in 1971 under its own special statute.
Korean temple bells
Korean temple bells (범종, beomjong) are large cast bronze bells hung in Korean Buddhist temples to call the community and announce the time, a style set by Unified Silla bells of 725 and 771.
Korean Traditional Medicine
Korean traditional medicine, also known as Korean medicine or hanuihak (한의학), is a healing system practiced in Korea, rooted in yin-yang theory and practiced alongside Western medicine.
Korean Unification Flag (한반도기)
Korean Unification Flag (한반도기), a white flag with a blue undivided Korean peninsula used by joint inter-Korean teams, first flown at the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships and at the 2000, 2004, 2006, and 2018 Olympics.
Korean Volunteer Army
The Korean Volunteer Army (조선의용군), also called Korean Volunteers, was an armed organization of Koreans in China founded in Wuhan in 1938, operating under the Chinese Communist Party.
Korean Volunteer Corps
The Korean Volunteer Corps (조선의용대) was a Korean independence armed group founded in Wuhan, China, in 1938 under Kim Won-bong to fight Japan alongside Chinese forces.
Korean War (한국전쟁)
Korean War (한국전쟁, 6·25 War), 1950–1953 conflict between North Korea (with China, Soviet backing) and South Korea (UN/US-backed), begun June 25, 1950 across the 38th parallel, ended by the July 27, 1953 armistice, still no peace treaty.