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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 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 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.
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.
Korowai people
Korowai (koluf-yanop, Kolufo), a Papuan people of about 4,000 in southern Indonesian Papua between the Eilanden and Becking rivers; clan-based society, treehouse settlements, first contact 1974, heavily staged TV portrayals since 1986.
Koryo-saram
Koryo-saram (고려사람, Koryo-in) are ethnic Koreans of the former Soviet Union, mainly Central Asia, formed by the 1937 Stalin deportation of about 172,000 Koreans from the Russian Far East; Russian-speaking, with the moribund Koryo-mar dialect and large return migration to South Korea.
Kosovo Albanians
Kosovo Albanians (Shqiptarët e Kosovës) are the ethnic Albanian majority of Kosovo, about 90.79% of the 2024 census population, shaped by Ottoman rule, Yugoslav autonomy, the 1998-1999 war, and the 2008 declaration of independence.
Kōtahitanga
Kōtahitanga is a Māori word meaning unity, given to pan-tribal Māori unity movements, especially the Kotahitanga Parliament of the 1890s that sought Māori self-government and Treaty implementation.
Kotoko people
The Kotoko are a Chadic-speaking people of fishermen and farmers living south of Lake Chad along the Logone and Chari Rivers, in Chad, Cameroon, and Nigeria, descended from the Sao.
Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Kraft Alexander Ernst Ludwig Georg Emich zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1935–2004), 9th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, head of the house from 1960, rebuilt Schloss Langenburg after the 1963 fire and founded the Deutsches Automuseum in 1970.
Krio migration and spread along the West African coast
The Krio migration was the nineteenth-century dispersal of settlers and Liberated Africans from Sierra Leone along the West African coast, from the Gambia to Cameroon.
Krobo
The Krobo, who call themselves Kloli, are a Dangme-speaking people of south-eastern Ghana, divided into the Manya and Yilo Krobo states and known for the dipo rite and glass bead-making.
Kru people
Kru (Krao, Kroo, Krumen) are a West African maritime people of southeastern Liberia and western Cote d'Ivoire; first recorded 1588, famed as canoe men and contract sailors, with Kru-language branch of Niger-Congo.
Kshatriya
Kshatriya (क्षत्रिय), second of the four Hindu varnas (Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudra), assigned rulership and warfare; historically a status claimed and legitimated by ruling lineages, distinct from the Vedic term rajanya.
Ku Klux Klan titles and vocabulary
Ku Klux Klan titles and vocabulary: the invented ranks and Kl- terms of the KKK, from Grand Wizard and Kloran to Imperial Wizard, Exalted Cyclops, and klavern, across the Reconstruction, 1920s, and modern Klans.
Kuki people
Kuki people, part of the Kuki-Chin-Mizo (Zo) Tibeto-Burman group of northeast India, Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts, and Myanmar's Chin State; exonym meaning hill people; marked by the 1917-1919 Anglo-Kuki War and the 2023 Manipur conflict.
Kumeyaay
The Kumeyaay (Diegueño) are a Yuman-speaking Indigenous people of San Diego County, California and northern Baja California, organized in bands including Campo, Viejas, and Sycuan, with 13 US reservations, a language of 140 to 150 speakers, and territory split by the US-Mexico border since 1854.
Kumhar (कुम्हार)
Kumhar (कुम्हार, Kumbhakar) is an Indian and Pakistani potter caste, also called Prajapati or Kumbhar, traditionally making earthen vessels; genetically close to Kerala's Kurchas and classified OBC in states like Uttar Pradesh.
Kumyks (къумукълар)
Kumyks (къумукълар, къумукъ), a Turkic Kipchak-speaking people of the Kumyk plain and Caspian shore in Dagestan; over 500,000 people, historically ruled by the Tarki shamkhalate, with Kumyk once Dagestan's state language.
Kunbi
Kunbi (कुणबी), also known as Kunbi Marathas or Kanabi, is a cluster of Marathi- and Gujarati-speaking cultivator castes of western and central India, and a generic Deccan term for a farmer.
Kunta (tribe)
The Kunta, in Arabic Kinata, are an Arabic-speaking tribe and scholarly lineage of the southern Sahara and Sahel, prominent from the 18th century in present-day northern Mali.
Kunyaza
Kunyaza (kachabali in Uganda) is a traditional Central African sexual technique from Rwanda and the Great Lakes region in which a man rhythmically taps the clitoris and labia with the glans of his erect penis to trigger female orgasm and liquid expulsion, documented for at least 150 years.
Kurds
Kurds (Kurdish people): an ethnic group of about 35 million spread across Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria; the world's largest stateless people, speaking Kurmanji, Sorani, Zazaki and related dialects, with movements from the KDP and PUK to the PKK and SDF.
Kurds in Syria
Kurds in Syria, the largest ethnic minority (2 to 2.5 million, up to 10% of the pre-war population), centered in Afrin, Kobane, Jazira, Aleppo, and Damascus; marked by the 1962 citizenship stripping, wartime SDF autonomy, and the 2026 citizenship and language decree.
Kurmi (कुर्मी)
Kurmi (कुर्मी), also Kunbi or Kudmi Mahato, is a Hindu agricultural caste of northern and eastern India, classified OBC, prominent in Bihar politics (Triveni Sangh, Nitish Kumar) with a Jharkhand Scheduled Tribe inclusion proposal pending.
Kurt Lewin
Kurt Lewin (1890-1947), German-American social psychologist, founder of field theory, group dynamics, and action research; created MIT's Research Center for Group Dynamics and the B = f(LS) formula.
Kuruba (ಕುರುಬ)
Kuruba (ಕುರುಬ), also Dhangar or Halu Mata, is a large shepherd and weaving caste of Karnataka, about 9.5% of the population, classified OBC 2A, seeking ST status; distinct from Jenu, Kadu, and Betta Kuruba Scheduled Tribes.
Kushwaha
Kushwaha is an agrarian caste community of northern India, concentrated in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Jharkhand; Bihar's 2022 caste census recorded over 5.5 million members.