South Chungcheong

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 충청남도(忠淸南道) (Chungcheongnamdo).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: cho͞ongʹchǔngʹ[1]

Proper noun

South Chungcheong

  1. A province in central South Korea.
    • 2018 March 5, Choe Sang-Hun, “A Political Star Falls as #MeToo Campaign Builds in South Korea”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 March 2018, Asia Pacific‎[3]:
      The politician, Ahn Hee-jung, governor of South Chungcheong Province, announced his resignation and retirement from public life in a Facebook post early Tuesday, hours after one of his secretaries, Kim Ji-eun, claimed in public that Mr. Ahn had raped her four times since last June.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “South Chungchong”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1803, column 3:South Chungchong (cho͞ongʹchǔngʹ), Korean Chungchong-namdo, Jap. [Japanese] Chusei-nando, province [Jap. and Korean do] []

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