Hamhung

English Alternative forms en Hamheung obsolete en Ham-heng Etymology From McCune-Reischauer romanization Hamhŭng of en ko ^함흥(咸興). Pronunciation en /hɑmˈhʊŋ/ häm′ho͝ong′Hamhung 751 1 Formerly sometimes spelled Hamheung.Ham·hung 305 1 en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Hamhung.wav Southern England Proper noun en The <<provincial capital>> of <<p:suf/South Hamgyong>>, <<c/North Korea>>; the country's 2nd-largest <<city>> and 3rd-largest <<port>>. en July 8, 1998 Don Kirk Donald Kirk A Literary Wanderer, Far From North Korea w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20240520010348/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/08/style/IHT-a-literary-wanderer-far-from-north-korea.html May 20, 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/08/style/IHT-a-literary-wanderer-far-from-north-korea.html 0362-4331 1645522 Style Author, editor, memoirist, Hyun isn't exactly searching for his roots. Rather, at 70, he's trying to make sense of a life that began in the industrial city of Hamhung, near the east coast of what is now North Korea, and has somehow deposited him in New York and France. en 2008 Robert Willoughby East Coast to Tanchon North Korea w:Bradt Travel Guides https://archive.org/details/northkoreabradtt0000will/ 2nd 1-84162-219-2 1028345136 12569771M 175 https://archive.org/details/northkoreabradtt0000will/page/175/ Hamhung is North Korea’s second city. The birthplace of the founder of Korea’s Ri dynasty and the site of a famous battle during the Korean War, Hamhung has since developed into a spacious industrial city of around 750,000 inhabitants. en 2015 w:Yeonmi Park; w:Maryanne Vollers In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom https://archive.org/details/inordertolivenor0000park/ Non-fiction w:Penguin Books 978-0-241-97303-5 1003656055 33 https://archive.org/details/inordertolivenor0000park/page/33/ It was unusual for a North Korean woman of her status to get a higher education. But my mother was such a good scholar that she was accepted at a college in the nearby city of Hamhung. If given a choice, she would have liked to have become a doctor. But only students from better families are allowed a say in what they will study. en January 26, 2022 North Korea fires two missiles as U.S. condemns flurry of tests https://web.archive.org/web/20220128010246/http://www.reuters.com/world/china/nkorea-fires-projectile-into-sea-off-east-coast-skorea-says-2022-01-26/ 28 January 2022 w:Reuters China South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said it had detected the launch of what it presumed were two ballistic missiles at about 8 a.m. (2300 GMT) from near Hamhung, on the east coast of North Korea. en Translations a city in North Korea Chinese: Cantonese: yue 咸興 Mandarin: cmn 咸興 Xiánxīng Hindi: hi हामहुंग Japanese: ja 咸興 はむふん, Hamufun Korean: ko ^함흥(咸興) Russian: ru Хамхы́н m, ru Хамху́н m References Further reading Hamhung pn en 1998 Hamhung 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 1223 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1223/ 2