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K-horror

K-horror noun: korean horror fiction.

Noun

K-horror (uncountable)

  1. Korean horror fiction
    • As befits a country with such a madly diverse film culture, the programme runs from high school K-horror to slapstick 16th-century detective yarns – but with a cluster of superior action thrillers at its centre.2011 October 14, Danny Leigh, “Why South Korea's action movies blow Hollywood out of the Yellow Sea”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2016

Origin of K-horror

From K- + horror.

Questions about K-horror

What does K-horror mean?
K-horror means korean horror fiction.
What part of speech is K-horror?
K-horror is a noun.

Words near K-horror in the dictionary

  1. K-gun
  2. K-hed
  3. K-heds
  4. K-Hell
  5. K-hole
  6. K-horror
  7. k-line
  8. k-lines
  9. K-Mag
  10. k-means clustering
  11. K-meson

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