Kangwŏn

English

Etymology

Loanword from Korean 강원(江原) (Gang'won).

Proper noun

Kangwŏn (uncountable)

1. McCune-Reischauer romanization of Kangwon (a province of North Korea).
2. Alternative form of Gangwon (South Korea)
   • 1988, Clark W. Sorensen, “Over the Mountains Are Mountains”, in Over the Mountains Are Mountains: Korean Peasant Households and Their Adaptations to Rapid Industrialization‎^[1], University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3:

     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.

   • 2007, Hyung Gu Lynn, “Decussation Effects? North–South Relations since 1989”, in Bipolar Orders: The Two Koreas since 1989‎^[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 161:

     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.

   • 2017, Anna Katrina Gutierrez, “Glocal fairy-tale retellings”, in Mixed Magic: Global-local dialogues in fairy tales for young readers‎^[3], John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 49:

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

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kangwŏn.