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Korean War and Soviet involvement
Soviet involvement in the Korean War saw Stalin approve North Korea's 1950 invasion and secretly deploy pilots and air defense units alongside North Korean and Chinese forces.
Korean War orphans
Korean War orphans were the roughly 100,000 children left parentless by the Korean War, a crisis that led South Korea to begin overseas adoption in 1954.
Korean War Veterans Memorial
The Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, authorized in 1986 and dedicated July 27, 1995, features 19 stainless-steel statues by Frank Gaylord, a mural wall by Louis Nelson, and the 2022 Wall of Remembrance.
Korean Wave (한류)
Korean Wave (한류, Hallyu, Hanliu 韓流): the global popularity of South Korean popular culture since the mid-1990s, starting with dramas and K-pop in China after 1992, later $13B+ K-content exports, 225 million fans, PSY's Gangnam Style, Parasite, and Squid Game.
Korean women's literature
Korean women's literature (한국 여성문학) is writing by Korean women and the field that studies it, traced to an 1898 declaration calling for girls' education.
Korean Writers' Association
The Korean Writers' Association (한국문인협회, known as Munhyeop) is a South Korean literary association founded in 1961, with about 14,000 members, literary journals, and prizes.
Korean, Vietnam and Indochina wars — overview and reference
The Korean, Vietnam, and Indochina wars were connected Cold War conflicts in Asia, including the Korean War (1950–53), the Vietnam War (1954–75), and the Laotian and Cambodian conflicts.
Koreanic languages
Koreanic languages (한국어족): the small East Asian language family comprising Korean (over 70 million speakers) and the endangered Jeju language (Jejueo), often treated as a Korean isolate plus Jeju; external links to Altaic or Japonic remain unproven.
Koreans (한국인)
Koreans (한국인, Han minjok) are the East Asian ethnic people of the Korean Peninsula and its worldwide diaspora. About 96% of South Koreans are ethnically Korean; roughly 7 million Koreans live abroad; genetically an admixed northern-southern East Asian group.
Koreans in China
Koreans in China (Chaoxianzu) are an officially recognized ethnic minority of the People's Republic of China. Numbering over 1.7 million in 2020, they are concentrated in Jilin and Yanbian, known for rice cultivation.
Koreans in Japan (在日韓国・朝鮮人)
Zainichi Koreans (在日韓国・朝鮮人) are ethnic Korean residents of Japan descended from colonial-era migrants of 1910–1945. Key facts: wartime peak of 2 million, 600,000 by 1948, special permanent residency, Chongryon-affiliated Chosǒn schools, and continuing hate-speech discrimination.
Koreasat
Koreasat, known in Korean as Mugunghwa (무궁화), is South Korea's series of geostationary communications satellites, nine launched since 1995 and five now operated for KT and KT SAT.
Koreatown, Los Angeles
Koreatown, Los Angeles (한인타운) is a central LA neighborhood proclaimed "Koreatown" by the city in 1980, built by post-1965 Korean immigration around Olympic Boulevard, now the largest Korean district outside Korea and a majority-Latino, transit-rich, gentrifying district.
Koreless
Koreless is the moniker of Lewis Roberts, a Welsh electronic music producer from Bangor known for largely beatless music, the 2021 album Agor, and extensive work with FKA twigs.
Korematsu v. United States
Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944), was a 6-3 Supreme Court decision upholding the wartime exclusion of Japanese Americans, later vacated by coram nobis in 1983 and repudiated in Trump v. Hawaii (2018).
Koren Jelala
Koren Jelala, also listed as Koren Jelila Yal, is an Ethiopian marathon runner born in 1987 who won the 2011 Toronto Waterfront Marathon in a course-record 2:22:43.
Korengal
Korengal (2014) is Sebastian Junger's documentary follow-up to Restrepo, built from unused footage of a US platoon at Outpost Restrepo in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, exploring fear, brotherhood, and why soldiers miss war.
Korenizatsiia (коренизация)
Korenizatsiia (коренизация), Soviet indigenization policy of the 1920s and early 1930s, promoted non-Russian languages, elites, and national territories; formalized in April 1923 and reversed from 1932.
Korenizatsiya
Korenizatsiya (Коренизация, "indigenization" or "nativization") was a Soviet policy adopted in 1923 to promote local languages and national elites in the non-Russian republics, wound down amid repression.
Kōrero
Kōrero is a Māori word meaning to talk, speak, or tell; as a noun it covers conversation, story, news, and discussion, including oral tradition passed down through generations.
Koretskyi Government
Koretskyi Government: Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine under Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi (Сергій Корецький), appointed 16 July 2026 after Yuliia Svyrydenko's dismissal; wartime technocratic cabinet with vacant defence and foreign portfolios.
Korfball
Korfball (korfbal) is a Dutch mixed-gender ball sport invented in 1902 by Nico Broekhuysen, inspired by a Swedish ringball game; teams of four men and four women shoot into a 3.5 m korf, governed by the IKF since 1933.
Korfball at the World Games
Korfball at the World Games is the korfball competition of The World Games, a mixed-gender Dutch-origin ball sport featured at every edition since 1985, with the Netherlands winning 11 golds.
Korg Triton
The Korg Triton is a line of music workstation synthesizers produced by Korg from 1999 onward, succeeding the Trinity and defining early-2000s pop, R&B, and hip-hop production.
Korgalzhyn Biosphere Reserve
Korgalzhyn Biosphere Reserve (Қорғалжын), Kazakhstan's first UNESCO biosphere reserve (2012), is a 1,603,171-ha steppe wetland of Tengiz–Korgalzhyn lakes, Ramsar site since 1976, with the northernmost flamingo colony and Saryarka World Heritage status.
Kori King
Kori King: Boston drag performer, comedian, and digital creator, RuPaul's Drag Race season 17 contestant (not an acting coach), famous for the Koriverse Cameo parody characters, CAA signing, and 2026 Black Barbie Tour.
Kori nuclear power plant
The Kori nuclear power plant (고리원자력발전소) is a South Korean nuclear power station in Busan, home to the country's first commercial reactor, started in 1978.
Korido
The korido is a Philippine metrical romance, a long narrative poem in eight-syllable quatrains sung at a fast tempo, popular from the Spanish colonial period until the early 20th century.
Kōrin Maki-e Box
The Kōrin Maki-e Box (光琳蒔絵硯箱) is a lacquer writing box by the Edo-period artist Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716), combining gold maki-e with mother-of-pearl and lead inlay.
Korinna Schumann
Korinna Schumann is an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party who has served as Federal Minister for Labour, Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection since 2025.