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Kore.ai

Kore.ai is an American enterprise software company founded by Raj Koneru and headquartered in Orlando, Florida, whose platform lets large organizations build and govern virtual assistants and AI agents.

Korea Aerospace Industries (한국항공우주산업)

Korea Aerospace Industries (한국항공우주산업) is a South Korean aerospace and defense manufacturer, the country's sole aircraft maker, founded in October 1999 in Sacheon. It makes the T-50 trainer, KF-21 Boramae fighter, and Surion helicopter.

Korea Airports Corporation

Korea Airports Corporation (한국공항공사) is a government-owned South Korean corporation established in 2002 that operates and manages 14 airports, including Gimpo, Gimhae, and Jeju, all except Incheon International Airport.

Korea Association of Robot Industry

The Korea Association of Robot Industry (한국로봇산업협회), founded in 2008, is South Korea's largest private robotics industry association, co-organizing RobotWorld and renamed the Korea AI·Robot Industry Association in 2025.

Korea Communications Commission

The Korea Communications Commission (방송통신위원회, KCC) was South Korea's regulator of broadcasting and telecommunications, launched in 2008 and replaced in 2025 by the Korea Media and Communications Commission.

Korea District Heating

Korea District Heating Corporation (KDHC), founded in 1985, is a South Korean public corporation supplying district heating, cooling, and electricity, serving about 1.9 million apartment households and listed on KOSPI.

Korea Expressway Corporation

Korea Expressway Corporation (한국도로공사, KEC) is a South Korean government-owned corporation, founded in 1969, that holds the exclusive right to operate and collect tolls on most of the country's expressways.

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP; 한국수력원자력) is a South Korean state-owned utility, a wholly owned subsidiary of KEPCO, that operates all of Korea's nuclear power plants and generates about 32% of the country's electricity.

Korea Institute of Industrial Technology

The Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH, 한국생산기술연구원) is a South Korean government-funded research institute, founded in 1989 and headquartered in Cheonan, that supports small and medium-sized enterprises.

Korea National Oil Corporation

Korea National Oil Corporation, also known as KNOC, is the state-owned oil and gas company of South Korea. Established in 1979, it manages strategic petroleum stockpiling and overseas production.

Korea Semiconductor Industry Association

The Korea Semiconductor Industry Association (KSIA; 한국반도체산업협회) is a private, member-based trade association promoting South Korea's semiconductor industry since 1991, with 275 member companies; it organizes the SEDEX exhibition.

Korea Software Industry Association

The Korea Software Industry Association (KOSA) is a South Korean statutory industry association for software and artificial intelligence, founded in 1988 and representing about 12,000 member companies.

Korea Testing and Research Institute

Korea Testing and Research Institute (KTR) is a South Korean testing, inspection, and certification organization founded in 1969, serving industrial, chemical, electrical, and healthcare fields.

Korea Testing Laboratory

Korea Testing Laboratory (한국산업기술시험원, KTL) is South Korea's public comprehensive testing and certification organization, operating under the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, founded in 1966 and headquartered in Jinju.

Korea Train Express (한국고속철도)

Korea Train Express (한국고속철도), commonly known as KTX, is the high-speed rail service of South Korea, operated by KORAIL since 2004 and cutting Seoul–Busan to under three hours.

Korea Transportation Safety Authority

The Korea Transportation Safety Authority (한국교통안전공단), branded as TS, is South Korea's traffic safety organization, responsible for vehicle inspection, safety research, and qualification testing across road, rail, and aviation transport.

Korea Water Resources Corporation

Korea Water Resources Corporation (한국수자원공사), known as K-water, is a South Korean state-owned corporation that develops and manages water resources, operating multipurpose dams since 1967.

Korean Air (대한항공)

Korean Air (대한항공), legally Korean Air Lines Co., Ltd., is South Korea's flag carrier, hubbed at Incheon and parent of Asiana Airlines since December 2024.

Korean Air and Missile Defense

Korean Air and Missile Defense (KAMD, 한국형 미사일방어) is South Korea's independent, multi-layered air and missile defense system, the defensive axis of its three-axis system against North Korean missile threats.

Korean Air Flight 801 (대한항공 801편)

Korean Air Flight 801 (대한항공 801편), also known as the KAL Guam Crash, was a Seoul to Guam passenger flight that crashed into Nimitz Hill in 1997, killing 228 of 254 aboard.

Korean Air Flight 858

Korean Air Flight 858 was a Baghdad-to-Seoul passenger flight destroyed by a bomb over the Andaman Sea in November 1987, killing all 115 aboard, including 95 passengers.

Korean Air incidents and accidents

The Korean Air incidents and accidents are the crashes and serious incidents of Korean Air since the 1980s, including the 1983 Flight 007 shootdown with 269 dead.

Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (대한항공 007편)

Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (대한항공 007편) was a New York to Seoul Boeing 747 shot down by a Soviet interceptor on September 1, 1983, killing all 269 aboard.

Korean Air Lines Flight 902

Korean Air Lines Flight 902 was a Paris-to-Seoul passenger flight whose Boeing 707 strayed into Soviet airspace in 1978, was fired on by Su-15 interceptors, and crash-landed on a frozen lake, killing two of 110 aboard.

Korean Coast Guard

The Korean Coast Guard (해양경찰청) is South Korea's maritime law enforcement agency, created in 1953 and independent since 1996, responsible for policing territorial waters, search and rescue, and maritime crime investigation.

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.

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.

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.

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.