Seongnam

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 성남(城南) (Seongnam).

Proper noun

Seongnam

1. A city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
   • 2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: The Armory:

     Your new suit's a Mark VI, just came up from Seongnam this morning.

   • 2023 August 3, “South Korea: Man goes on stabbing rampage near Seoul”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[1], archived from the original on 01 February 2024, South Korea‎^[2]:

     An attack in the town of Seongnam near the South Korean capital of Seoul on Thursday left 13 people injured, local police said.

   • 2023 November 27, Soo-Hyang Choi, Minwoo Park, Daewoung Kim, “South Korean city turns to matchmaking to boost low birth rates”, in Josh Smith, Stephen Coates, editors, Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on November 27, 2023, Asia Pacific‎^[4]:

     Despite criticism, thousands of people have signed up for this year's blind-dating events arranged by the Seongnam city.
     Seongnam Mayor Shin Sang-jin said spreading positive views on marriage would eventually help raise the birth rates, stressing that the blind-dating events are just one of many policies his city has rolled out to reverse the plunging rates.

Translations

a city in South Korea

• Arabic: سْيُونْغْنَام m (syunḡnām)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 城南 (zh) (Chéngnán)

• Japanese: 城南 (そんなむ, Sonnamu)
• Korean: 성남(城南) (Seongnam)
• Russian: Сонна́м m (Sonnám)

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