Suwon

English

Etymology

From Korean 수원(水原) (Suwon).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: so͞oʹwǔnʹ[1]

Proper noun

Suwon

  1. The capital city of Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
    • 2016 December 9, “South Korea's parliament votes to impeach President Park”, in Deutsche Welle‎[2], archived from the original on 09 December 2016, Asia‎[3]:
      A group of anti-Park farmers who tried to drive into the capital on tractors and trucks had skirmishes with police overnight in Suwon, just south of the capital, Seoul.
    • 2020 December 17, Choe Sang-Hun, “He Spent 20 Years in Prison, Until a Serial Killer Confessed to the Crime”, in The New York Times‎[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 December 2020, Asia Pacific‎[5]:
      Park Jeong-jae, a district court judge in Suwon, south of Seoul, said on Thursday in his ruling on Mr. Yoon’s case, “It was a wrong verdict based on faulty investigations.”

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Suwon”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1850, column 2

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