Chongjin

chōngjìn chòngjìn English Etymology From en ko ^청진(淸津). Pronunciation chǔngʹjēnʹen 1952 Chongjin Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 404 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/404/ 2 Proper noun en city province/North Hamgyong country/North Korea the third largest city in North Korea. en February 5, 2013 Max Fisher The Cannibals of North Korea w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20170224191821/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/02/05/the-cannibals-of-north-korea/ 24 February 2017 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/02/05/the-cannibals-of-north-korea/ 0190-8286 2269358 WorldViews There were times and places in North Korea in the mid-1990s, as a great famine wiped out perhaps 10 percent of the population, that children feared to sleep in the open. Some of them had wandered in from the countryside to places like Chongjin, an industrial town on the coast, where they lived on streets and in railroad stations. en 07/26/2013 Benjamin Mack Behind the curtain https://web.archive.org/web/20150913023805/https://www.dw.com/en/a-rare-glimpse-into-north-korea/a-16977796 13 September 2015 https://www.dw.com/en/a-rare-glimpse-into-north-korea/a-16977796 w:DW News "The North Hamgyong Provincial E-Library has 301 computers," translates Suh Byung Kim, the wiry 34-year-old guide, as the head librarian speaks Korean. "It is open every day at 10 a.m. Every person in the provincial capital Chongjin can use them," he says to a group of Westerners visiting the location. en November 01, 2014 Tony Bonnici US tourist held in North Korea felt ‘compelled to leave Bible’ w:The Times https://web.archive.org/web/20230827093010/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/us-tourist-held-in-north-korea-felt-compelled-to-leave-bible-8kplhgrdkqf 27 August 2023 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/us-tourist-held-in-north-korea-felt-compelled-to-leave-bible-8kplhgrdkqf 0140-0460 181820531 https://archive.li/pHXBn Mr Fowle said he left the Bible with his name in it in a bathroom under a bin at a nightclub in the northern port city of Chongjin and hoped a Christian would find it. en August 4, 2021 Hahna Yoon Tracing Freedom to a Pair of Jeans w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20210804090224/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/04/style/north-korean-defector-fashion.html 04 August 2021 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/04/style/north-korean-defector-fashion.html 0362-4331 1645522 “When I lived in North Korea, I never had the freedom to wear what I wanted, but I never questioned it because I didn’t know this freedom existed,” said Jihyun Kang, 31, who grew up in Chongjin, the third-largest city in North Korea. en Synonyms from Japanese en Seishin from Mandarin Chinese en Qingjin Translations a city in North Korea Chinese: Cantonese: yue 清津 Mandarin: cmn 清津 Japanese: ja 清津 ちょんじん, Chonjin Korean: ko ^청진(淸津) Russian: ru Чхонджи́н m References Further reading Chongjin, Qingjin, Seishin en 2008 Chongjin Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 791 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/791/ 3