Hungnam
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 흥남(興南) (Heungnam).
Proper noun
Hungnam
- A district of Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province, North Korea.
- 2000 December 27, Steve Vogel, “U.S. Remembers Heroic Evacuation From Besieged North Korean Port”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 04, 2024:
- With communist forces attacking the U.S. perimeter around Hungnam, U.S. ships, aided by the merchant marine, were able to evacuate more than 100,000 military personnel and approximately 100,000 North Korean refugees.
- 2021 September 5, Choe Sang-Hun, “As Afghan Refugee Crisis Unfolds, Survivors Recall ‘Miracle’ Evacuation”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on September 06, 2021, Taliban Takeover in Afghanistan:
- Mr. Sohn’s parents were among 91,000 refugees that the American military evacuated from Hungnam, a port on the eastern coast of North Korea, in a frantic retreat from Chinese Communist troops during the Korean War in 1950. They boarded the last ship leaving the port with refugees — the S.S. Meredith Victory, a United States merchant marine cargo freighter.
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Further reading
- Hungnam at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hungnam”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1335, column 1