북벌

Korean

Sino-Korean word from 北伐, from 北 (“north”) + 伐 (“conquer”).

Romanizations
Revised Romanization^?	bukbeol
Revised Romanization (translit.)^?	bugbeol
McCune–Reischauer^?	pukpŏl
Yale Romanization^?	pukpel

북벌 • (bukbeol) (hanja 北伐)

northern conquest; conquest of a northern region
Coordinate term: 남정(南征) (namjeong)
(historical) various aborted plans by seventeenth-century Koreans to attack Qing China, most seriously considered during the reign of Hyojong (1649−1659)
(historical) the Northern Expedition (military campaign launched in 1926 by the Chinese Kuomintang government against various forces in North China)