Uijeongbu

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 의정부(議政府) (Uijeongbu). Named for the State Council of Joseon.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: o͝oʹēʹjǔngʹbo͞oʹ[1]

Proper noun

Uijeongbu

  1. A city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
    • 2012 February 21, Choe Sang-Hun, “South Korea Cracks Down on Match-Fixing Epidemic”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 February 2012, Sports:
      Also this month, prosecutors in Uijeongbu, north of Seoul, arrested a motorboat racer. The 36-year-old racer was charged with taking cash from a gambling broker in exchange for sending him cellphone text messages predicting the results of a coming race.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Uijongbu”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1975, column 2
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