Hungnam

Moon was born on Jan. 24, 1953, during the Korean War, on Geoje island off the southern tip of the peninsula. His parents had fled from the North during the war, sailing for three days on the deck of a U.S. ship packed with refugees. “I was thinking I wanted to finish my life there in Hungnam doing pro-bono service," he said in his book published in January, referring to his parents' hometown on North Korea's east coast.

2017 May 9, Hyunjoo Jin, Cynthia Kim, Ju-min Park, Joyce Lee, Jack Kim, “South Korea's shy new President Moon hits the spotlight”, in Soyoung Kim, Bill Tarrant, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2018

The official Korean Central News Agency recently reported about factories that had increased production during the first 10 days of the campaign. It said a fertilizer complex in the northeastern port city of Hungnam expanded its output by over 150% and a children’s knitwear factory in Pyongyang by 170%. The claims couldn’t be independently confirmed.

2020 November 13, HYUNG-JIN KIM, “North Korea waging propaganda-heavy, 80-day labor campaign”, in AP News, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2020

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.

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 06 Sep 2021, Taliban Takeover in Afghanistan