Ulleung
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 울릉(鬱陵) (Ulleung).
Proper noun
Ulleung
- Synonym of Ulleungdo: An island in Ulleung, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
- 2022 November 1, Choe Sang-Hun, “North Korea Launches 10 Missiles, Triggering Air-Raid Alarm in South”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on November 2, 2022, Asia Pacific:
- 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.”
- A county of North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
Translations
Ulleungdo — see Ulleungdo