Kangwon

Kangwŏn English + Province (North Korea) Kangwon-do Alternative forms en Kangwŏn Etymology Borrowed from en ko ^강원도(江原道). en Gangwon. Pronunciation käng′wŭn′Kangwon 906 2 Proper noun en province c/North Korea Wonsan. en June 14, 1996 CRC helps relieve food shortage in North Korea Christian Courier 2490 https://archive.org/details/christian-courier-n-2490-1996-june-17/ Burlington, Ontario (CRWRC) 1192-3415 1082207653 Church 9 https://archive.org/details/christian-courier-n-2490-1996-june-17/page/9/ 3 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. en August 8, 1999 Calvin Sims North Korea Sees a Plot After Deaths Of Gift Cows w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20150527100850/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/08/world/north-korea-sees-a-plot-after-deaths-of-gift-cows.html 27 May 2015 https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/08/world/north-korea-sees-a-plot-after-deaths-of-gift-cows.html 0362-4331 1645522 World 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. en 2008 Geography and Climate Korea World and Its Peoples https://archive.org/details/worlditspeoplese0007unse/ 7 w:Marshall Cavendish 978-0-7614-7640-5 2007060865 812139264 868 https://archive.org/details/worlditspeoplese0007unse/page/868/ 2 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. en 2010 Jinwung Kim Wonsan, North Korea w:Spencer C. Tucker The Encyclopedia of the Korean War: A Political, Social, and Military History https://books.google.com/books?id=QzHYEAAAQBAJ II 9781851098507 499741522 973 https://books.google.com/books?id=QzHYEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA973 2 At present, Wonsan is the provincial capital of North Korea's Kangwon Province and has an estimated population of some 330,000 people. en 2017 Michael Adams Andy, Dylan & Yasmin Killswitch The Seven Signs https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781743628041/ Juvenile Fiction 4 Scholastic Australia 978-1-74362-804-1 953062995 127 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781743628041/page/127/ ‘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.’ en August 25, 2017 Jack Kim UPDATE 3-N.Korea fires multiple short-range projectiles into sea -S.Korea James Dalgleish; Sandra Maler w:Reuters https://web.archive.org/web/20180609131705/https://www.reuters.com/article/northkorea-missiles/update-3-n-korea-fires-multiple-short-range-projectiles-into-sea-s-korea-idUSL4N1LB5K5/ June 09, 2018 https://www.reuters.com/article/northkorea-missiles/update-3-n-korea-fires-multiple-short-range-projectiles-into-sea-s-korea-idUSL4N1LB5K5/ Intel 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. en September 5, 2020 Hyung-Jin Kim Seeking unity, NKorea’s Kim vows to overcome typhoon damage w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20200906111911/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/seeking-unity-nkoreas-kim-vows-to-overcome-typhoon-damage/2020/09/05/67f18e88-efef-11ea-bd08-1b10132b458f_story.html 06 September 2020 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/seeking-unity-nkoreas-kim-vows-to-overcome-typhoon-damage/2020/09/05/67f18e88-efef-11ea-bd08-1b10132b458f_story.html 0190-8286 2269358 Asia & Pacific 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. en 14 August 2023 North Korea’s Kim pulls up officials for typhoon-inflicted damage w:EFE https://web.archive.org/web/20231001201941/https://efe.com/en/other-news/2023-08-14/north-koreas-kim-pulls-up-officials-for-typhoon-inflicted-damage/ October 01, 2023 https://efe.com/en/other-news/2023-08-14/north-koreas-kim-pulls-up-officials-for-typhoon-inflicted-damage/ 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. en August 18 2023 Gavin Blair Kim Jong-un at typhoon-hit farms as North Korea rebuked over starvation w:The Times https://web.archive.org/web/20240420060028/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/north-korea-typhoon-kim-jong-un-food-shortage-kkjk0ks8q 20 April 2024 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/north-korea-typhoon-kim-jong-un-food-shortage-kkjk0ks8q 0140-0460 181820531 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. en Gangwon (South Korea) en April 13, 2002 Don Kirk Korea's getaway delights — in any season w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20240329201216/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/13/news/koreas-getaway-delights-in-any-season.html 29 March 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/13/news/koreas-getaway-delights-in-any-season.html the Seoul correspondent of the International Herald Tribune 0362-4331 1645522 World 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. en 28 October 2004 Steven Knipp Moving mountains w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20240329225823/https://www.scmp.com/article/475840/moving-mountains March 29, 2024 https://www.scmp.com/article/475840/moving-mountains 1563-9371 648902513 Latest 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. en October 15, 2006 Ylan Q. Mui Tastes From Home w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20240329201121/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/2006/10/16/tastes-from-home-span-classbankheadimmigration-feeds-rhee-bros-growth-span/fd5a35a3-375d-46d3-8f77-4a4a33d1f7d9/ March 29, 2024 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/2006/10/16/tastes-from-home-span-classbankheadimmigration-feeds-rhee-bros-growth-span/fd5a35a3-375d-46d3-8f77-4a4a33d1f7d9/ 0190-8286 2269358 Business 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. en 2008 KoreAm Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=qrURAQAAIAAJ 19 5-7 1541-1931 50299108 48 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. en November 15, 2010 Marc McDonald North Korea Defections on Rise, South Says w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20170511161120/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/world/asia/16korea.html May 11, 2017 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/world/asia/16korea.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific “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. en 2021 December Young Chul Cho How Does South Korea Make Sense of the Rise of Illiberal China in East Asia Today? Prospect & Exploration zh 展望與探索 https://web.archive.org/web/20240401110739/https://www.mjib.gov.tw/FileUploads/eBooks/c6f99c8dffc5480585354631656d0c90/Section_file/435d01ef0aed47f08888816664d20b19.pdf April 01, 2024 https://www.mjib.gov.tw/FileUploads/eBooks/c6f99c8dffc5480585354631656d0c90/Section_file/435d01ef0aed47f08888816664d20b19.pdf 19 12 1998-5665 52543814 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. Translations province of North Korea Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 江原道 Jiāngyuán Dào Korean: ko 강원도 See also en Gangwon References Further reading Kangwon Kangwŏn province, North Korea, in Encyclopædia Britannica en 1998 Kangwon Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1497 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1497 1 Anagrams en agknnow kwongan