Kangwon

See also: Kangwŏn

English

Alternative forms

• Kangwŏn

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 강원도(江原道) (Gang'wondo). Doublet of Gangwon.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kängʹwǔnʹ

Proper noun

Kangwon

1. A province of North Korea. Capital: Wonsan.
   • 1999 August 8, Calvin Sims, “North Korea Sees a Plot After Deaths Of Gift Cows”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, World‎^[3]:

     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.

   • 2008, “Geography and Climate”, in Korea (World and Its Peoples)‎^[4], volume 7, Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 868, column 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.

   • 2010, Jinwung Kim, “Wonsan, North Korea”, in Spencer C. Tucker, editor, The Encyclopedia of the Korean War: A Political, Social, and Military History‎^[5], volume II, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 973, column 2:

     At present, Wonsan is the provincial capital of North Korea's Kangwon Province and has an estimated population of some 330,000 people.

   • 2017, Michael Adams, “Andy, Dylan & Yasmin”, in Killswitch (The Seven Signs)‎^[6], volume 4 (Juvenile Fiction), Scholastic Australia, →ISBN, →OCLC, 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.’

   • 2017 August 25, Jack Kim, “UPDATE 3-N.Korea fires multiple short-range projectiles into sea -S.Korea”, in James Dalgleish, Sandra Maler, editors, Reuters‎^[7], archived from the original on June 09, 2018, Intel‎^[8]:

     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.

   • 2020 September 5, Hyung-Jin Kim, “Seeking unity, NKorea’s Kim vows to overcome typhoon damage”, in The Washington Post‎^[9], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 September 2020, Asia & Pacific‎^[10]:

     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.

   • 2023 August 14, “North Korea’s Kim pulls up officials for typhoon-inflicted damage”, in EFE‎^[11], archived from the original on October 01, 2023‎^[12]:

     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.

   • 2023 August 18, Gavin Blair, “Kim Jong-un at typhoon-hit farms as North Korea rebuked over starvation”, in The Times‎^[13], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 August 2023:

     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.

2. Alternative form of Gangwon (South Korea)
   • 2002 April 13, Don Kirk, “Korea's getaway delights — in any season”, in The New York Times‎^[14], sourced from the Seoul correspondent of the International Herald Tribune, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on March 29, 2024, World‎^[15]:

     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.

   • 2004 October 28, Steven Knipp, “Moving mountains”, in South China Morning Post‎^[16], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on March 29, 2024, Latest‎^[17]:

     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.

   • 2006 October 15, Ylan Q. Mui, “Tastes From Home”, in The Washington Post‎^[18], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on March 29, 2024, Business‎^[19]:

     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.

   • 2008, KoreAm Journal‎^[20], volume 19, numbers 5-7, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 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.

   • 2010 November 15, Marc McDonald, “North Korea Defections on Rise, South Says”, in The New York Times‎^[21], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 11, 2017, Asia Pacific‎^[22]:

     “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.

   • 2021 December, Young Chul Cho, “How Does South Korea Make Sense of the Rise of Illiberal China in East Asia Today?”, in Prospect & Exploration [展望與探索]‎^[23], volume 19, number 12, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on April 01, 2024:

     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: 江原道 (zh) (Jiāngyuán Dào)

• Korean: 강원도 (gang'wondo)

See also

• Gangwon

Further reading

• Kangwon at Google Ngram Viewer
• Kangwŏn province, North Korea, in Encyclopædia Britannica
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Kangwon”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[24], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1497, column 1

Anagrams

• kwongan