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Yeon Sik Jung
Yeon Sik Jung (정연식) is a South Korean materials scientist and KAIST professor known for block copolymer self-assembly and nanoscale architectures for solar cells and electrocatalysts.
Yeon Woo-jin (연우진)
Yeon Woo-jin (연우진, born Kim Bong-hoe, 1984) is a South Korean actor who debuted in the 2009 film Friends? and stars in Daily Dose of Sunshine and the 2026 ENA drama Honour as Baek Tae-joo.
Yeondeunghoe
Yeondeunghoe (연등회, lotus lantern festival) is a Korean Buddhist lantern-lighting festival culminating in a parade, recorded since the 9th century and inscribed by UNESCO in 2020.
Yeonggyu
Yeonggyu (영규) was a Korean Buddhist monk who became the first monk-general of the Imjin War, recapturing Cheongju Fortress in 1592 before dying at Geumsan.
Yeongheung power station
Yeongheung power station (영흥화력발전소) is a bituminous coal-fired power station on Yeongheung Island in Incheon, South Korea, operated by Korea South-East Power with 5,080 MW from six units.
Yeongjo of Joseon (이금)
Yeongjo of Joseon, personal name Yi Geum, was the 21st king of Korea's Joseon dynasty, whose 52-year reign, the longest of the dynasty, ended in 1776.
Yeongnyu of Goguryeo
Yeongnyu of Goguryeo (영류왕), personal name Geonmu, was the 27th king of Goguryeo, reigning from 618 to 642. He pursued friendly ties with the Tang dynasty before being assassinated in Yeon Gaesomun's 642 coup.
Yeongseonsa
Yeongseonsa (영선사, 領選使) was the first student-escorting mission Joseon sent to Qing China, dispatched in 1881 under Kim Yun-sik to study weapons manufacturing at Tianjin.
Yeongsimi Folk Village
Yeongsimi Folk Village (영심이민속촌) is a small folk-village theme park in the Sodap-dong area of Uichang-gu, Changwon, South Gyeongsang, South Korea, about 2 km from Changwon Station.
Yeongung soseol
Yeongung soseol (영웅소설, "hero novel") is a genre of premodern Korean fiction whose heroes resolve the conflict between self and world, including works like Hong Gildongjeon.
Yeongyang of Goguryeo
Yeongyang of Goguryeo (영양왕, 嬰陽王), also called Pyeongyang-wang, was the 26th king of Goguryeo from 590 to 618, repelling four invasions by China's Sui dynasty.
Yeonhaeng
Yeonhaeng (연행; 燕行, "travel to Yan") was Joseon Korea's regular diplomatic mission to Beijing under the Qing dynasty, which sent 698 official missions between 1637 and 1894.
Yeonhee
Yeonhee (연희), birth name Kim Yeon-hee, is a South Korean singer who debuted in August 2019 as leader of Rocket Punch and later joined the project group EL7Z UP.
Yeonjun
Yeonjun (연준, Choi Yeonjun, born 1999) is a South Korean singer, rapper, and dancer under Big Hit Music, first revealed member of TOMORROW X TOGETHER (TXT), and solo artist behind GGUM and the NO LABELS mini-album series.
Yeonmi Park (박연미)
Yeonmi Park (박연미), born 1993 in Hyesan, is a North Korean defector, human rights activist, and author of In Order to Live (2015) and While Time Remains (2023), known for her 2014 One Young World speech and for documented inconsistencies in her escape accounts.
Yeonsangun of Joseon (이융)
Yeonsangun (연산군, 燕山君), 10th king of Joseon, reigned 1494–1506; conducted the Muo and Gapja literati purges, persecuted historiographers, and was deposed in the 1506 Jungjong coup, leaving Daily Records instead of veritable records.
Yeonsangun's tyranny
Yeonsangun's tyranny (연산군 폭정) was the violent rule of King Yeonsangun of Joseon, the tenth king, who used purges and executions against ministers and literati before being deposed in 1506.
Yeosang
Yeosang, born Kang Yeo-sang (강여상) in 1999, is a South Korean singer and member of the K-pop boy group ATEEZ, which debuted in 2018 under KQ Entertainment.
Yeosu
Yeosu (여수, 麗水) is a coastal city on the southern coast of South Jeolla Province, South Korea, a Joseon naval base and petrochemical center that hosted Expo 2012.
Yeosu–Suncheon rebellion
The Yeosu–Suncheon rebellion was an October 1948 mutiny by South Korea's 14th Regiment, which refused to suppress the Jeju uprising and was put down in about a week.
Yeouido Park One
Yeouido Park One, commonly written Parc.1 (여의도 파크원), is a mixed-use complex of office towers, a hotel, and retail on Yeouido Island in Seoul, completed in 2020.
Yeovil
Yeovil is a South Somerset town of about 45,000, recorded in Domesday Book as Givele, historically a glove-making market town and since 1935 a helicopter-industry center via Westland Aircraft, now undergoing town centre regeneration.
Yeovil Town F.C.
Yeovil Town F.C. ("The Glovers"), English football club founded 1890 in Yeovil, Somerset; FA Cup giant-killers of 1949, FA Trophy winners 2002, Football League 2003–2019, one Championship season 2013/14, now in the National League.
Yep (search engine)
Yep is a privacy-focused search engine launched in beta in June 2022 by Ahrefs, running on its own independent index rather than results from Google or Bing.
YEPD
YEPD, also called YPD or YEDP, is a rich complex yeast growth medium of 1% yeast extract, 2% peptone, and 2% dextrose, autoclaved at 121 °C, used routinely for Saccharomyces cerevisiae culture.
Yeqiao Wang
Yeqiao Wang is a remote sensing scientist and professor at the University of Rhode Island known for satellite mapping of land cover, wetlands, and mangroves.
Yeqing Zhu
Yeqing Zhu (朱叶青) is a Chinese business executive who co-founded New Horizon Health, a Hangzhou-based cancer-screening company, in 2015 and led it as chief executive and chairman until his 2024 resignation.
Yer
Yer (Ъ, hard sign, jer) is a Cyrillic letter from Old Church Slavonic's reduced back vowel, now the Russian separating hard sign and Bulgarian vowel /ɤ/ (er golyam), unlike the soft sign Ь.
Yerba Brava
Yerba Brava is an Argentine cumbia villera group formed in 1998 in San Fernando, Buenos Aires Province, best known for 'La cumbia de los trapos' and its 2000 debut album Cumbia Villera.
Yerba mate
Yerba mate, or mate, is a caffeinated South American infusion of Ilex paraguariensis leaves, of Guarani origin, spread by Jesuits; drunk via gourd and bombilla, led by Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Brazil.