Seongnam
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 성남(城南) (Seongnam).
Proper noun
Seongnam
- A city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
- 2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: The Armory:
- Your new suit's a Mark VI, just came up from Seongnam this morning.
- 2023 August 3, “South Korea: Man goes on stabbing rampage near Seoul”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 01 February 2024, South Korea:
- An attack in the town of Seongnam near the South Korean capital of Seoul on Thursday left 13 people injured, local police said.
- 2023 November 27, Soo-Hyang Choi, Minwoo Park, Daewoung Kim, “South Korean city turns to matchmaking to boost low birth rates”, in Josh Smith, Stephen Coates, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on November 27, 2023, Asia Pacific:
- Despite criticism, thousands of people have signed up for this year's blind-dating events arranged by the Seongnam city.
Seongnam Mayor Shin Sang-jin said spreading positive views on marriage would eventually help raise the birth rates, stressing that the blind-dating events are just one of many policies his city has rolled out to reverse the plunging rates.
Translations
a city in South Korea