Hungnam

English Hŭngnam Etymology Borrowed from en ko ^흥남(興南). Pronunciation ho͝ong′näm′Hungnam 815 2 Hungnam (ho͝ong′näm′), Jap. [Japanese] Konan (kō′nã), Proper noun en district city/Hamhung p/South Hamgyong c/North Korea. en December 27, 2000 Steve Vogel U.S. Remembers Heroic Evacuation From Besieged North Korean Port w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20241225195233/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/12/28/us-remembers-heroic-evacuation-from-besieged-north-korean-port/ec313168-8cbd-4d93-b160-9eee318007a6/ 25 December 2024 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/12/28/us-remembers-heroic-evacuation-from-besieged-north-korean-port/ec313168-8cbd-4d93-b160-9eee318007a6/ 0190-8286 2269358 With communist forces attacking the U.S. perimeter around Hungnam, U.S. ships, aided by the merchant marine, were able to evacuate more than 100,000 military personnel and approximately 100,000 North Korean refugees. en May 9, 2017 Hyunjoo Jin; Cynthia Kim; Ju-min Park; Joyce Lee; Jack Kim South Korea's shy new President Moon hits the spotlight Soyoung Kim; Bill Tarrant w:Reuters https://web.archive.org/web/20180208213359/https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-southkorea-election-moon-profile/south-koreas-shy-new-president-moon-hits-the-spotlight-idUKKBN1851HI https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-southkorea-election-moon-profile/south-koreas-shy-new-president-moon-hits-the-spotlight-idUKKBN1851HI/ February 08, 2018 Moon was born on Jan. 24, 1953, during the Korean War, on Geoje island off the southern tip of the peninsula. His parents had fled from the North during the war, sailing for three days on the deck of a U.S. ship packed with refugees.“I was thinking I wanted to finish my life there in Hungnam doing pro-bono service," he said in his book published in January, referring to his parents' hometown on North Korea's east coast. en November 13, 2020 HYUNG-JIN KIM North Korea waging propaganda-heavy, 80-day labor campaign w:AP News https://web.archive.org/web/20201113074315/https://apnews.com/article/international-news-seoul-south-korea-north-korea-coronavirus-pandemic-ffe76e53a73f1879c149cb9954d95e08 https://apnews.com/article/international-news-seoul-south-korea-north-korea-coronavirus-pandemic-ffe76e53a73f1879c149cb9954d95e08 November 13, 2020 The official Korean Central News Agency recently reported about factories that had increased production during the first 10 days of the campaign. It said a fertilizer complex in the northeastern port city of Hungnam expanded its output by over 150% and a children’s knitwear factory in Pyongyang by 170%. The claims couldn’t be independently confirmed. en September 5, 2021 w:Choe Sang-Hun As Afghan Refugee Crisis Unfolds, Survivors Recall ‘Miracle’ Evacuation w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20210906070347/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/world/asia/korean-war-evacuation-afghanistan.html September 06, 2021 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/world/asia/korean-war-evacuation-afghanistan.html 0362-4331 1645522 Taliban Takeover in Afghanistan Mr. Sohn’s parents were among 91,000 refugees that the American military evacuated from Hungnam, a port on the eastern coast of North Korea, in a frantic retreat from Chinese Communist troops during the Korean War in 1950. They boarded the last ship leaving the port with refugees — the S.S. Meredith Victory, a United States merchant marine cargo freighter. Translations district Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 興南 Korean: ko ^흥남(興南) References Further reading Hungnam en 1998 Hungnam 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 1335 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1335/ 1