Suwon

English

Etymology

From Korean 수원(水原) (Suwon).

Proper noun

Suwon

1. The capital city of Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
   • 2016 December 9, “South Korea's parliament votes to impeach President Park”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[1], archived from the original on December 09, 2016, Asia‎^[2]:

     A group of anti-Park farmers who tried to drive into the capital on tractors and trucks had skirmishes with police overnight in Suwon, just south of the capital, Seoul.

   • 2020 December 17, Choe Sang-Hun, “He Spent 20 Years in Prison, Until a Serial Killer Confessed to the Crime”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on December 17, 2020, Asia Pacific‎^[4]:

     Park Jeong-jae, a district court judge in Suwon, south of Seoul, said on Thursday in his ruling on Mr. Yoon’s case, “It was a wrong verdict based on faulty investigations.”

Translations

city in South Korea

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水原 (zh) (Shuǐyuán)

• Japanese: 水原 (スウォン, Suwon)
• Korean: 수원(水原) (ko) (Suwon)
• Russian: Суво́н m (Suvón)

Anagrams

• Nwosu