Pak Explained

Pak or PAK may refer to:

Places

• Pakistan (country code PAK)
• Pak, Afghanistan
• Pak Island, in the Admiralty Islands group of Papua New Guinea
• Pak Tea House, a café in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Arts and entertainment

• PAK (band), an American band
• Perfect All-Kill, a music chart achievement in South Korea
• Pak, Nintendo's sensational spelling of the word "pack" as a name for their game media and accessories:
  • Controller Pak, the Nintendo 64's memory card
  • Expansion Pak, a RAM add-on for Nintendo 64
  • Game Pak, game cartridges designed for early Nintendo systems
  • Option Pak, any of a number of special attachments for the Nintendo DS
  • Rumble Pak, a haptic feedback device
  • Transfer Pak, a data-transfer device
  • Tremor Pak, a third-party Rumble Pak

People

• Pak (Korean surname), or Park
• Pak (creator), formerly Murat Pak, digital artist, cryptocurrency investor, and programmer
• B. J. Pak (born 1974), Korean-American attorney and politician
• Bo Hi Pak (1930–2019), prominent member of the Unification Church
• Gary Pak (born 1952), Asian Hawaiian writer, editor and professor
• Greg Pak (born 1968), American comic book writer and film director
• Igor Pak (born 1971), Russian professor of mathematics at the University of California
• John Pak (born 1998), American professional golfer
• SuChin Pak (born 1976), South Korean-born American television news correspondent
• Ty Pak (born 1938), Korean-born writer and speaker
• Yangjin Pak, South Korean archaeologist

Science, technology and military

• PAK (file format), used by computers
• Panzerabwehrkanone (Pak or PaK), German anti-tank guns
• p21 activated kinase, any of a family of enzymes
• 9mm P.A.K., a firearm cartridge for a non-lethal gas pistol noisemaking gun

Other uses

• Pak Airways, a former Pakistan airline
• Pak language (disambiguation)
• Panhellenic Liberation Movement (ΠΑΚ), a Greek organisation that campaigned against the 1967–1974 military regime
• Kurdistan Freedom Party (Parti Azadi Kurdistan), a Kurdish nationalist militant group
• Privatisation Agency of Kosovo, a government agency

See also

• • • Paak (disambiguation)
• Pack (disambiguation)
• Pak Protector, a form of life in the Known Space fictional universe
• Tetra Pak, a food packaging company