Kangwon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: kängʹwǔnʹ
Forms: form: Kangwŏn
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 강원도(江原道) (Gang'wondo). Doublet of Gangwon.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1996 June 14, “CRC helps relieve food shortage in North Korea”, in Christian Courier, number 2490, sourced from Burlington, Ontario (CRWRC), →ISSN, →OCLC, Church, page 9, column 3:
text: 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.
ref: 1999 August 8, Calvin Sims, “North Korea Sees a Plot After Deaths Of Gift Cows”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, World:
text: 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.
ref: 2008, “Geography and Climate”, in Korea (World and Its Peoples), volume 7, Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 868, column 2:
text: At present, Wonsan is the provincial capital of North Korea's Kangwon Province and has an estimated population of some 330,000 people.
ref: 2010, Jinwung Kim, “Wonsan, North Korea”, in Spencer C. Tucker, editor, The Encyclopedia of the Korean War: A Political, Social, and Military History, volume II, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 973, column 2:
text: ‘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.’
ref: 2017, Michael Adams, “Andy, Dylan & Yasmin”, in Killswitch (The Seven Signs), volume 4 (Juvenile Fiction), Scholastic Australia, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 127:
text: 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.
ref: 2017 August 25, Jack Kim, “UPDATE 3-N.Korea fires multiple short-range projectiles into sea -S.Korea”, in James Dalgleish, Sandra Maler, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2018, Intel:
text: 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.
ref: 2020 September 5, Hyung-Jin Kim, “Seeking unity, NKorea’s Kim vows to overcome typhoon damage”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2020, Asia & Pacific:
text: 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.
ref: 2023 August 14, “North Korea’s Kim pulls up officials for typhoon-inflicted damage”, in EFE, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2023:
text: 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.
ref: 2023 August 18, Gavin Blair, “Kim Jong-un at typhoon-hit farms as North Korea rebuked over starvation”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2023:
glosses: A province of North Korea. Capital: Wonsan.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2002 April 13, Don Kirk, “Korea's getaway delights — in any season”, in The New York Times, sourced from the Seoul correspondent of the International Herald Tribune, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2024, World:
text: 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.
ref: 2004 October 28, Steven Knipp, “Moving mountains”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2024, Latest:
text: 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.
ref: 2006 October 15, Ylan Q. Mui, “Tastes From Home”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2024, Business:
text: […]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.
ref: 2008, KoreAm Journal, volume 19, numbers 5-7, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 48:
text: “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.
ref: 2010 November 15, Marc McDonald, “North Korea Defections on Rise, South Says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 May 2017, Asia Pacific:
text: 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.
ref: 2021 December, Young Chul Cho, “How Does South Korea Make Sense of the Rise of Illiberal China in East Asia Today?”, in Prospect & Exploration [展望與探索], volume 19, number 12, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2024:
english: 展望與探索
translation: 展望與探索
glosses: Alternative form of Gangwon (South Korea)
Related terms: Gangwon