Jinju

See also: jīnjú

English

Etymology

From Korean 진주(晋州) (Jinju).

Proper noun

Jinju

1. A city in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
   • 2022 October 24, Choe Sang-Hun, “No Red Cape, or Red Ink, in South Korean Bullrings”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on April 01, 2009, Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     Mr. Kang’s day begins at 6 a.m., when he serves his 13 fighting bulls the first of four hot meals a day. On this morning, Mr. Kang was busy stoking the fire under a caldron filled with bean sprouts, rice stalks, corn, yams, potatoes, pumpkin chunks and anchovies — a stark contrast to the factory feed that goes to ordinary cattle at Mr. Kang’s ranch in Jinju, about 180 miles south of Seoul.