Ulleung

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 울릉(鬱陵) (Ulleung).

Proper noun

Ulleung

  1. Synonym of Ulleungdo: An island of Ulleung, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
    • 1904 May 31, Hongkong Daily Press, number 14,400, Hong Kong, sourced from Extra to the Corean Official Gazette, May 18, 1904, →OCLC, page 2, column 3:
      The Extra further announces that of the charters granted to Russian subjects, individuals or companies, which are still in force, those considered by the Corean Government to be unobjectionable will be considered binding as hitherto. The charters for the cutting of timber and forest making in the Tumen and Yalu districts and on Ulleung Island were originally granted to individuals, but in practice the Russian Government authorities are conducting the business, and they not only ignore the terms of the charters, but take an aggressive attitude.
    • 2022 November 1, Choe Sang-Hun, “North Korea Launches 10 Missiles, Triggering Air-Raid Alarm in South”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2 November 2022, Asia Pacific‎[2]:
      The military issued an air-raid alert on Ulleung, an island off South Korea’s east coast with a population of about 9,000. The missile fell into international waters 103 miles northwest of the island.
      “The siren started blaring at 8:55 a.m. and we got a message from our government computer system saying that this is ‘a real-life situation,’” not a mock drill, said Chung Young-hwan, a local official on Ulleung. “We took refuge at an underground shelter for three or four minutes before coming out again.”
  2. A county of North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.

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