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From Korea +‎ -an.

Korean (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the Asian Peninsula comprising North Korea and South Korea.
    • 2013 July 18, Claire Lee, “Popular TV drama revisited onstage”, in The Korea Herald[1]:

      The show’s stage design features bojagi, traditional Korean patchwork. The audience members are also presented with Korean traditional dance, including buchaechum, or “fan dance,” performed by a group of female dancers using fans painted in different colors.

  2. Of or relating to the Korean language.

relating to the Korean Peninsula

Korean

  1. (uncountable) Official language of the people residing on the Korean Peninsula, and language of approximately 60 million people, in Asia, North America, and elsewhere.

language

Korean (plural Koreans)

  1. (countable) A person of an ethnic group indigenous to the Korean Peninsula.
    • 2023 June 26, Jun Ji-hye, “Korea's age system to change from Wednesday”, in The Korea Times[3], archived from the original on 9 October 2024:

      All Koreans to become one or even two years younger under int'l system

person

Korean

  1. genitive singular of Korea