Pyeonghae

• P'yŏnghae, Pyonghae, Pingai, Ping-hai

From the Revised Romanization of Korean 평해(平海) (Pyeonghae).

Pyeonghae

1. A town in North Gyeongsang, South Korea, formerly important as a harbor.
   • [1977, Michael Keon, “The Climate of Confidence”, in Korean Phoenix: A Nation from the Ashes‎^[1], Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall International, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 98:

     Over the mountains to the east of Samgun Village, in North Kyongsang Province, in the particularly ill-circumstanced village of Pyonghae, village leader Kim Ju Shik sought in vain to reforest surrounding hillsides through local investment and effort until a typhoon struck and left washed-away homes and rock-inundated fields behind it; in disaster's aftermath, the village rallied behind Kim and in two years 41 hectares of hillsides were covered with thriving big-cone pines that will soon bring a forest-products harvest of several hundred million won, as well as physical protection, to Samgun.]

   • 1983, “East Coastal Area”, in James Louttit, editor, Fodor's Korea‎^[2], 1st edition, New York: Fodor's Travel Guides, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 92:

     The area has two notable mountains—Mt. Paekamsan (3,020 feet), inland from the coastal town of Pyeonghae, where you can take in Paekam Hot Springs on the same trip; and, Mt. Taebaeksan (4,700 feet), inland from the coastal town of Chukbyon, with the option of visiting Tokgu Hot Springs on your return trip to the coastal road.

   • 2016, Mark Dake, chapter 21, in South Korea: The Enigmatic Peninsula‎^[3], Toronto: Dundrun Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 299:

     When we reached the water, near Pyeonghae, we merged onto a road that ran along the coast and headed south. As we drove, we could hear the breakers crashing loudly onto sections of rugged windswept beach and rocky outcroppings.