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Kippumjo (기쁨조)
Kippumjo (기쁨조), also called Section 5 (5과), pleasure squads of young North Korean women selected from about age 13 to serve the ruling Kim family and elite; founded 1975 under Kim Il Sung, with reported song-and-dance, attendance, and sexual-service subdivisions.
Kirk Raymond Jones
Kirk Raymond Jones, Canton, Michigan daredevil; first known person to survive Niagara Falls' Horseshoe Falls unprotected on October 20, 2003; died 2017 in a second, inflatable-ball attempt.
Kirt Schneider
Kirt A. Schneider, also Kirt Schneider, is an American Messianic Jewish TV host of Discovering the Jewish Jesus: born to Jewish parents in Ohio, converted after a 1978 vision of Jesus, leads Lion of Judah in Toledo, wrote Called to Breakthrough, cut his payot in 2026.
Kiss
The kiss: mouth-to-mouth contact with social or romantic meaning. Present in only 46% of sampled cultures, documented in Mesopotamia 4,500 years ago, and likely arising with great apes 21.5–16.9 million years ago.
Kiss nightclub fire
The Kiss nightclub fire, or incêndio da Boate Kiss, killed 241 people and injured 636 in Santa Maria, Brazil, on January 27, 2013, during a band performance.
Kitty Duterte
Veronica "Kitty" Duterte, youngest daughter of Rodrigo Duterte and Honeylet Avanceña; filmed his March 2025 ICC arrest, campaigned for PDP-Laban in 2025, and defends the family at ICC and impeachment events.
Kiwanis
Kiwanis is a global volunteer service organization founded in Detroit in 1915, focused on serving children, with clubs in about 85 countries, 49 districts, and youth programs including Key Club, Circle K, Builders Club, K-Kids, and Aktion Club.
Kiwi Farms
Kiwi Farms is an American harassment forum founded by Joshua Moon, descended from the CWCki wiki, known for lolcow threads and the September 2022 #DropKiwiFarms deplatforming by Cloudflare and other infrastructure firms.
Kiyoshi Kuromiya
Kiyoshi Kuromiya (1943–2000), Japanese American Philadelphia activist; GLF-Philadelphia co-founder, Selma marcher, Black Panther convention delegate, and founder of the Critical Path AIDS Project.
Kizuna-kai (絆會)
Kizuna-kai (絆會), also known as the Ninkyo Yamaguchi-gumi, is a Hyogo-based yakuza group formed in April 2017 as a splinter from the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi; a designated boryokudan and confrontation-designated group distinct from the religious corporation Kizunakai.
Klamath people
Klamath people of southern Oregon; the Klamath Tribes (Klamath, Modoc, Yahooskin-Paiute), Treaty of 1864, 1954 termination, 1986 restoration, and Klamath River dam removal.
Klismaphilia
Klismaphilia (also klysmaphilia) is a paraphilia of sexual arousal from receiving or administering enemas, coined by psychiatrist Joanne Denko in 1973; classified under DSM-5 other specified paraphilic disorder, with reported fatal risk from rectal alcohol enemas.
Knanaya (ക്നാനായ)
Knanaya (ക്നാനായ), or Thekkumbhagar (Southists), is an endogamous community within Kerala's Saint Thomas Christians, tracing origin to a 345 CE Jewish-Christian migration from Mesopotamia led by Thomas of Cana; split into Syro-Malabar Catholic (Archeparchy of Kottayam) and Jacobite branches.
Knights of Columbus
The Knights of Columbus, founded by Father Michael J. McGivney in New Haven in 1882 and chartered March 29, 1882, is a Catholic fraternal benefit society with over 2 million members, offering life insurance and performing extensive charitable work.
Knights of Pythias
Knights of Pythias, fraternal order founded by Justus H. Rathbone in Washington, DC, February 19, 1864; first US fraternal order chartered by Act of Congress; ritual based on Damon and Pythias; principles Friendship, Charity, Benevolence.
Knights Templar (Freemasonry)
Knights Templar (Freemasonry): Christian chivalric appendant order, top York Rite body in the US, meeting in Commanderies under Grand Commanderies and the Grand Encampment; not descended from the medieval Templars.
Ko Yong Suk (고용숙)
Ko Yong Suk (고용숙) is Kim Jong Un's maternal aunt, sister of Ko Yong Hui, who cared for him in Switzerland and defected to the United States via the Geneva embassy in May 1998, later suing defectors over claims about her family.
Kodava people
Kodavas (Coorgs), an ethnolinguistic agricultural-martial community of Kodagu district, Karnataka, India; speakers of the endangered Dravidian language Kodava takk; known for ancestor worship, Kaveriamma veneration, oral patt poetry, and genetic similarity to neighboring South Indians.
Koli people
Koli people (कोली), also Son Koli, Mahadeo Koli, are a cluster of fishing and agricultural castes and tribes of western India, about 12 million people in Maharashtra and Gujarat, with 39 surviving Koliwada villages in Mumbai.
Kololo people
The Kololo, also rendered Makololo or baKololo, were a Sotho-speaking people who under Sebetwane conquered the Lozi kingdom of Bulozi and ruled it from about 1840 to 1864.
Komagata Maru incident
The Komagata Maru incident: 1914 event in which a Japanese steamship carrying 376 Punjabi passengers was denied landing at Vancouver for two months under Canada's continuous journey regulation and forced back to India.
Komaram Bheem
Komaram Bheem (1901–1940) was a Gond tribal leader of Adilabad, Hyderabad State, who led the 1940 Jodeghat rebellion against Nizam-era forest and land policies under the slogan Jal, Jangal, Jameen; he is commemorated at Jodeghat and namesake of Kumuram Bheem Asifabad district.
Komodo people
Komodo people (Ata Modo, "people of Modo") are the indigenous Muslim inhabitants of Komodo Island, Indonesia, speakers of the endangered Komodo language (kvh), kin to the dragon Ora in the sebae twin myth, facing relocation and tourism pressure.
Kongo people
The Kongo people (Bakongo) are a Bantu people speaking Kikongo across Angola, the DRC, and the Republic of the Congo, heirs of the Kingdom of Kongo founded around 1400, known for minkisi power figures and a large Atlantic diaspora.
Konkani people
Konkani people: ethnolinguistic communities of India's western Konkan coast speaking Konkani, centered in Goa and coastal Karnataka, Kerala, and Maharashtra; multi-script, multi-religion, with diasporas in Portugal and the Indian Ocean.
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 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 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 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 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.