Meaning of Kangwon | Babel Free

Definitions

1. McCune-Reischauer romanization of Kangwon (a province of North Korea).
   McCune-Reischauer, alt-of, romanization, uncountable
2. A province of North Korea. Capital: Wonsan.

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“The food will assist families working on collective farms in Kangwon Province, North Korea. Made homeless by the 1995 floods, they are sail housed with other farm families.”

“Mr. Chung, a son of a poor farmer in Tonchon, Kangwon Province, in North Korea, said he had decided to donate the cattle to pay a family debt. At 18, Mr. Chung stole his father's cow in secret and used the proceeds to travel to Seoul to make his fortune. He is now one of South Korea's wealthiest men.”

“In 2002, the North Korean government separated this area from North Korea’s Kangwon province and it became a so-called special zone, the Kumgangsan Tourist Region, with provincial status. The zone, which has been called a "fortified tourist compound," is closed to ordinary North Koreans and receives South Korean tourists, many of whom arrive by sea.”

“At present, Wonsan is the provincial capital of North Korea's Kangwon Province and has an estimated population of some 330,000 people.”

“‘I’ve been running analysis on the audio feed from the RoboWorld security cameras that caught JJ’s kidnappers speaking to him,’ RoboJJ said. ‘The accent is native to those raised in North Korea’s Kangwon province.’”

“North Korea early on Saturday fired several short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast from its eastern Kangwon province, South Korea’s military said.”

“KCNA didn’t report any deaths or injuries in the two provinces. But the country’s main Rodong Sinmun newspaper said Saturday that “dozens of casualties” were reported in Kangwon province, south of the Hamgyong provinces, and that officials in Kangwon would be “gravely punished” for failing to evacuate residents to safety.”

“North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un criticized regional officials for their “irresponsible work attitude” in failing to take preventive measures against Typhoon Khanun, which left crop fields flooded in the country, state media reported Monday. Kim made these remarks during a visit to typhoon-hit areas in Ogye-ri, Anbyon County of the northern Kangwon province, North Korean news agency KCNA reported.”

“Some 200 hectares of rice paddies in Kangwon Province are reported to have been flooded by tropical storm Khanun, which swept across North Korea last week after battering Japan’s Okinawa.”

“GOHAN — This town in Jeongseon (Jungsun) County, Gangwon (Kangwon) Province, in five years may be the hub of one of Asia's greatest vacation destinations.”

“Last week, Korea National Railroad (Korail) began offering twice-weekly trains, each carrying 350 people, from Seoul Station to Kangwon province just south of the DMZ; passengers still need to transfer to Hyundai buses to cross the border, but by summer a rail link will run right through the DMZ to the resort.”

“Then one day his mother sent him a wooden box with dried squid from the Kangwon province of South Korea, which is famous for its seafood. Rhee knew how difficult it was to find the squid in the United States, so he took it to a Japanese grocer who bought it for twice what his mother paid. It flew off the shelves, and the grocer came back asking for more.”

“[…]age of 5, his parents abandoned him and his younger brother, leaving them to roam the streets of South Korea's Kangwon Province in search of food and coins.”

““Because of my petulant personality, it was difficult for me to get along with other people,” he said at a news conference soon after his defection, and a few months later he went to a police station and asked to be sent back to the North. The request was refused, and Mr. Rhee eventually moved to rural Kangwon Province, northeast of Seoul.”

“Kolon Global Corporation, a South Korean local builder, planned to set up a 1.2 square kilometer ‘Korea-China Cultural Tourism Town’ in South Korea’s Kangwon province by 2022.”

展望與探索

“Chang Yŏnggŏn was born in 1914 in San’gongni, a collection of small hamlets in the mountains some twenty-five kilometers southwest of Ch’unch’ŏn, the capital of South Korea’s Kangwŏn Province.”

“In fall 1996, there was a dramatic incursion by a North Korean submarine, which ran aground on the eastern coast of South Korea’s Kangwŏn province, that resulted in shootouts in the forest and collateral deaths of South Korean civilians.”

“The characters Gomi and Uncle Oppondori are ghosts that have haunted Chi’ak Mountain (in South Korea’s Kangwŏn Province) for thirty years.”

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