Kyongwon

English Etymology From en ko 경원(慶源). Pronunciation kyŭng′wŭn′ Proper noun en county province/North Hamgyong c/North Korea. en 1882 G. W. Keeton Regulations for Maritime and Overland Trade between Chinese and Korean Subjects, 1882 The Development of Extraterritoriality in China https://archive.org/details/volume1developme00keet_0/ 1928 II w:Longmans, Green & Co. 1851192 341 https://archive.org/details/volume1developme00keet_0/page/341/ Article V.—In consideration of the numerous difficulties arising from the authority exercised by local officials over the legal traffic at such places on the boundary as I-chou, Hui-ning, and Ch’ing-yuan, it has now been decided that the people on the frontier shall be free to go to and fro and trade as they please at Ts’e-men and I-chou on the two sides of the Ya-lu River, and at Hun-ch’un and Hui-ning on the two sides of the T’u-men River. (Note: Ch’ing-yuan is the Mandarin-derived name (Wade-Giles) for Kyongwon.) on en 1968 Hae-jong Chun Sino-Korean Tributary Relations in the Ch’ing Period w:John King Fairbank The Chinese World Order: Traditional China's Foreign Relations https://archive.org/details/chineseworldorde0000john/ Cambridge, Mass. w:Harvard University Press 68-14255 322527 108 https://archive.org/details/chineseworldorde0000john/page/108/ Furthermore, border trade between the two countries was conducted at Chunggang (Chung-chiang), a small island in the estuary of the Yalu, Hoeryŏng (Hui-ning), and Kyŏng’wŏn (Ch’ing-yüan). The last two places are in the lower Tumen valley. en 1988 Dae-Sook Suh Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader https://archive.org/details/00book729884/ New York w:Columbia University Press 0-231-06573-6 88-6106 32590268 356 https://archive.org/details/00book729884/page/356/ An, one of the closest comrades of Kim II Sung from Manchuria, was also known as An Sang-gil. He was born on February 24, 1907, in Kyŏngwŏn, Hamgyŏng pukto, and participated in Kim’s guerrilla forces all during the 1930s. en 2007 Andre Schmid Tributary Relations and the Qing-Chosŏn Frontier on Mount Paektu Diana Lary The Chinese State at the Borders https://archive.org/details/chinesestateatbo0000unse/ w:UBC Press 978-0-7748-1333-4 144602037 137 https://archive.org/details/chinesestateatbo0000unse/page/137/ Before heading into Wiwŏn, Mukedeng announced that, after inspecting the corpses and the border-crossing site, he would head upriver through the Kanggye region, travelling all the way to Kyongwon on the lower reaches of the Tumen River. en 2013 July The Reality of Civil and Political Rights White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea 2013 https://archive.org/details/whitepaperonhuma0000unse/ w:Korea Institute for National Unification 978-89-8479-714-7 907245231 136 https://archive.org/details/whitepaperonhuma0000unse/page/136/ North Korean defector XXX testified that he/she was detained at Jongori Correctional Center in 2010. At the time, XXX (man, age 27 at the time) from Kyongwon County, North Hamgyoung province, was caught stealing cooked rice from the dining hall. He was forced to carry outside and bury human waste. When agents found him unable to fulfill the task, they beat him to death, after dragging him around. en August 7, 2020 w:Choe Sang-Hun For P.O.W., Landmark Verdict Against North Korea Is Long-Overdue Justice w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20200807092005/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/world/asia/north-korea-pow-verdict-kim.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific Mr. Han, who retired from the Hamyon coal mines at age 60, was living in Kyongwon, in northeast North Korea, when a man showed up in August 2001, asking whether he wanted to meet his South Korean relatives. Mr. Han said he followed the man across the river border to China, his youngest son tagging along. en Translations county Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 慶源 Japanese: ja Korean: ko 경원 Further reading Kyongwon