Kkangpae, the Glossary
Kkangpae is a romanization of the Korean word that is commonly translated to 'gangster' or 'thug'.[1]
Table of Contents
58 relations: A Bittersweet Life, Assault, Blackmail, Busan, Businessperson, C. S. Lee, Chun Doo-hwan, Comfort women, Drug Enforcement Administration, Drug lord, Empire of Japan, English language, Extortion, Fentanyl, Friend (2001 film), Gaming law, Government of the Philippines, Gwangju, Illegal drug trade, Incheon, Jeolla Province, Joseon, Kelvin Han Yee, Kim Chwa-chin, Kim Du-han, Korea under Japanese rule, Korean cuisine, Korean dialects, Korean independence movement, Korean language, Koreatown, Los Angeles, LAPD Metropolitan Division, Liberal Party (South Korea), Loan shark, Los Angeles, Lucy (2014 film), Manchuria, MC Lyte, Mokpo, New World (2013 film), Park Chung Hee, Power (TV series), Protection racket, Racism, Real estate, Republic of China (1912–1949), Romanization, S.W.A.T. (2017 TV series), S.W.A.T. (2017 TV series) season 1, Sex trafficking, ... Expand index (8 more) »
- Gangs in South Korea
- Organized crime by ethnicity
A Bittersweet Life
A Bittersweet Life (lit. "The Sweet Life") is a 2005 South Korean neo-noir action drama film written and directed by Kim Jee-woon.
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Assault
An assault is the illegal act of causing physical harm or unwanted physical contact to another person, or, in some legal definitions, the threat or attempt to do so.
Blackmail
Blackmail is a criminal act of coercion using a threat.
Busan
Busan, officially is South Korea's second most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.3 million inhabitants as of 2024.
Businessperson
A businessperson, also referred to as a businessman or businesswoman depending on the gender, is an individual who has founded, owns, or holds shares in (including as an angel investor) a private-sector company.
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C. S. Lee
Charlie Seunghee Lee (born December 30, 1971), known professionally as C.S. Lee, is an American actor and comedian.
Chun Doo-hwan
Chun Doo-hwan (or; 18 January 1931 – 23 November 2021) was a South Korean politician, army general and military dictator who served as the fifth president of South Korea from 1980 to 1988.
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Comfort women
Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories before and during World War II.
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Drug Enforcement Administration
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a United States federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Justice tasked with combating illicit drug trafficking and distribution within the U.S. It is the lead agency for domestic enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act, sharing concurrent jurisdiction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S.
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Drug lord
A drug lord, drug baron, kingpin, or lord of drugs is a type of crime boss in charge of a drug trafficking network, organization, or enterprise.
Empire of Japan
The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Extortion
Extortion is the practice of obtaining benefit (e.g., money or goods) through coercion.
Fentanyl
Fentanyl is a highly potent synthetic piperidine opioid primarily used as an analgesic. It is 20 to 40 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine; its primary clinical utility is in pain management for cancer patients and those recovering from painful surgeries. Fentanyl is also used as a sedative.
Friend (2001 film)
Friend is a 2001 South Korean neo-noir action film written and directed by Kwak Kyung-taek.
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Gaming law
Gaming law is the set of rules and regulations that apply to the gaming or gambling industry.
Government of the Philippines
The government of the Philippines (Pamahalaan ng Pilipinas) has three interdependent branches: the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
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Gwangju
Gwangju, formerly romanized as Kwangju, is South Korea's sixth-largest metropolis.
Illegal drug trade
The illegal drug trade, drug trafficking, or narcotrafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of prohibited drugs.
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Incheon
Incheon (or Inch'ŏn; literally "kind river"), formerly Jemulpo or Chemulp'o (제물포) until the period after 1910, officially the Incheon Metropolitan City (인천광역시, 仁川廣域市), is a city located in northwestern South Korea, bordering Seoul and Gyeonggi to the east.
Jeolla Province
Jeolla Province was one of the historical Eight Provinces of Korea during the Kingdom of Joseon in southwestern Korea.
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Joseon
Joseon, officially Great Joseon State, was a dynastic kingdom of Korea that existed for 505 years.
Kelvin Han Yee
Kelvin Han Yee (born June 14, 1961, San Francisco, California) is an American actor of Asian descent.
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Kim Chwa-chin
Kim Chwa-chin (24 November 1889 – 24 January 1930), sometimes called by his art name Baegya, was a Korean general, independence activist, and anarchist who played an important role in the early attempts at development of anarchism in Korea.
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Kim Du-han
Kim Du-han (May 15, 1918 – November 21, 1972), also spelled Kim Doo-han, was a South Korean mobster, anti-communist activist, politician and the son of Kim Chwa-chin.
Korea under Japanese rule
From 1910 to 1945, Korea was ruled as a part of the Empire of Japan under the name Chōsen (Hanja: 朝鮮, Korean: 조선), the Japanese reading of Joseon.
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Korean cuisine
Korean cuisine has evolved through centuries of social and political change.
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Korean dialects
A number of Korean dialects are spoken on the Korean Peninsula.
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Korean independence movement
The Korean independence movement was a series of diplomatic and militant efforts to liberate Korea from Japanese rule.
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Korean language
Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말, Chosŏnmal) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent.
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Koreatown, Los Angeles
Koreatown (코리아타운, Koriataun) is a neighborhood in central Los Angeles, California, centered near Eighth Street and Irolo Street.
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LAPD Metropolitan Division
Metropolitan Division, commonly referred to as Metro Division or just Metro, is an elite division of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) under its Special Operations Group.
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Liberal Party (South Korea)
The Liberal Party was a far-right corporatist and anti-communist political party in South Korea established in 1951 by Syngman Rhee.
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Loan shark
A loan shark is a person who offers loans at extremely high or illegal interest rates, has strict terms of collection, and generally operates outside the law, often using the threat of violence or other illegal, aggressive, and extortionate actions when seeking to enforce the satisfaction of the debt.
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
Lucy (2014 film)
Lucy is a 2014 English-language French science fiction action film written and directed by Luc Besson for his company EuropaCorp, and produced by his wife, Virginie Besson-Silla.
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Manchuria
Manchuria is a term that refers to a region in Northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day Northeast China, and historically parts of the modern-day Russian Far East, often referred to as Outer Manchuria.
MC Lyte
Lana Michele Moorer (born October 11, 1970), better known by her stage name MC Lyte, is an American rapper.
Mokpo
Mokpo is the third largest and most densely populated city in South Jeolla Province, South Korea, located at the southwestern tip of the Korean Peninsula, close to Yudal mountain.
New World (2013 film)
New World is a 2013 South Korean epic crime film written and directed by Park Hoon-jung.
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Park Chung Hee
Park Chung Hee (November 14, 1917 – October 26, 1979) was a South Korean politician and army general who served as the third President of South Korea from 1962 to 1979 after he seized power in the May 16 coup of 1961.
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Power (TV series)
Power is an American crime drama-thriller television series created and produced by Courtney A. Kemp in collaboration with Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson.
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Protection racket
A protection racket is a type of racket and a scheme of organized crime perpetrated by a potentially hazardous organized crime group that generally guarantees protection outside the sanction of the law to another entity or individual from violence, robbery, ransacking, arson, vandalism, and other such threats, in exchange for payments at regular intervals.
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Racism
Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity.
Real estate
Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as growing crops (e.g. timber), minerals or water, and wild animals; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more generally) buildings or housing in general.
Republic of China (1912–1949)
The Republic of China (ROC), or simply China, as a sovereign state was based on mainland China from 1912 to 1949, when the government retreated to Taiwan, where it continues to be based.
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Romanization
In linguistics, romanization is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so.
S.W.A.T. (2017 TV series)
S.W.A.T. is an American police procedural action drama television series, based on the 1975 television series and the 2003 film adaptation of the same name.
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S.W.A.T. (2017 TV series) season 1
The first season of S.W.A.T. an American police procedural drama television series, premiered on CBS on November 2, 2017, and ended on May 17, 2018, with 22 episodes.
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Sex trafficking
Sex trafficking is human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
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Special agent
In the United States, a special agent is an official title used to refer to certain investigators or detectives of federal, military, tribal, or state agencies who primarily serve in criminal investigatory positions.
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Syngman Rhee
Syngman Rhee (26 March 1875 – 19 July 1965) was a South Korean politician who served as the first president of South Korea from 1948 to 1960.
The Shield
The Shield is an American crime drama television series starring Michael Chiklis that premiered on March 12, 2002, on FX in the United States, and concluded on November 25, 2008, after seven seasons.
Tong (organization)
A tongChin, Ko-lin.
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Triad (organized crime)
A triad is a Chinese transnational organized crime syndicate based in Greater China with outposts in various countries having significant overseas Chinese populations.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Xenophobia
Xenophobia (from ξένος (xénos), "strange, foreign, or alien", and (phóbos), "fear") is the fear or dislike of anything which is perceived as being foreign or strange.
Yakuza
, also known as, are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan. Kkangpae and Yakuza are organized crime by ethnicity.
See also
Gangs in South Korea
- 14K (triad)
- Kkangpae
- Sun Yee On
- Yamaguchi-gumi
Organized crime by ethnicity
- Albanian Mafia
- Albanian mafia
- American Mafia
- Anonima sarda
- Armenian mafia
- Azerbaijani mafia
- British firms (organised crime)
- Bulgarian mafia
- Cape Verdean organized crime
- Caucasian Front (militant group)
- Chaldean mafia
- Chechen mafia
- Colombian Mafia
- Corsican mafia
- Fujianese organized crime
- Galician Mafia
- Georgian mafia
- Greek mafia
- Irish Mob
- Israeli mafia
- Jamaican posse
- Kkangpae
- Kurdish mafia
- Lebanese mafia
- Macedonian mafia
- Montenegrin mafia
- Moroccan mafia
- Organized crime in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Organized crime in Taiwan
- Romanian mafia
- Russian Mafia
- Russian mafia
- Serbian Mafia
- Serbian mafia
- Sicilian Mafia
- Slovak mafia
- Turkish mafia
- Ukrainian mafia
- Xã Hội Đen
- Yakuza
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kkangpae
Also known as 7 Star Mob, 7-Star Mob, Gangpeh, Ggangpae, H.S.S Mob, H.S.S. Mob, HSS Mob, History of the Korean mafia, Jokpo, Korean Mafia, Korean Organized Crime and Gangs, Korean mob, Korean organized crime, Organized crime in Korea, Seven Star Mob, Seven-Star Mob.
, Special agent, Syngman Rhee, The Shield, Tong (organization), Triad (organized crime), World War II, Xenophobia, Yakuza.