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South Korean

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adjective

  1. of or relating to South Korea or its inhabitants

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of South Korea

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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BTS’ comeback album “Arirang,” its first after the band members’ mandatory South Korean military service, was widely expected to compete for the award.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

The South Korean stock market is notoriously volatile, but concerns have spilled over into the big US companies.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

Yet when South Korean chipmakers—riding the same memory-chip windfall as China’s own ChangXin Memory Technologies, or CXMT—went into a speculative frenzy and then cracked, they rattled Chinese tech too.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

Despite aggressive investments, shares of SK hynix and its larger South Korean rival Samsung Electronics have fallen sharply by 33 per cent and 41 per cent respectively over the past month.

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

It’s estimated that South Korean businesses control between sixty and eighty percent of that market, including distribution, retail, and, increasingly, manufacturing.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

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