Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Hoeryong.
Kim Chŏng-suk, was born on December 24, 1919, the elder of two daughters of a poor farmer in Hoeryŏng, Hamgyong pukto.
1988, Dae-Sook Suh, “Guerrilla Accomplishments”, in Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 50–513 more examples
Furthermore, border trade between the two countries was conducted at Chunggang (Chung-chiang), a small island in the estuary of the Yalu, Hoeryŏng (Hui-ning), and Kyŏng’wŏn (Ch’ing-yüan). The last two places are in the lower Tumen valley.
1968, Hae-jong Chun, “Sino-Korean Tributary Relations in the Ch’ing Period”, in John King Fairbank, editor, The Chinese World Order: Traditional China's Foreign Relations, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 108Article 5 permitted Chinese and Koreans to trade at Ch’aengmun and Ŭiju on the Yalu River and at Hun-ch’un and Hoeryŏng on the Tumen River, the duties to be 5 percent ad valorem on all goods except red ginseng.
1977, Martina Deuchler, “Korea Between China and Japan”, in Confucian Gentlemen and Barbarian Envoys: The Opening of Korea, 1875-1885, University of Washington Press, published 1983, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 142Joseph was born in 1990 in Hoeryŏng a city in North Hamgyŏng province, North Korea. Happy memories of his childhood ended in 2002 when North Korea's great famine took a deadly toll on his family.
2018 June 8, Jessica Formoso, “From North Korea refugee to U.S. citizen in New York Our American Dream”, in WNYW, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2020
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