Meanings
- A city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
The theme park will be located in Hwaseong City in Gyeonggi Province, about 30 km (18.5 miles) south-west of the South Korean capital Seoul.
2007 November 26, Kim Soyoung, “Universal group to invest $3 bln in S.Korea park”, in Keiron Henderson, editor, Reuters, sourced from SEOUL (Reuters), archived from the original on 05 Jun 2026, Media & Telecom1 more example
For more than a dozen of them, their Korean dream came to a horrifying end on Monday, when a toxic inferno engulfed a lithium-battery factory where they had found work. The 22 laborers killed in the plant in Hwaseong, a city south of Seoul, included 12 women and five men from China, ranging in age from 23 to 48, officials said. Most were ethnic Koreans.
2024 June 25, Choe Sang-Hun, “Deadly Fire Exposes Harsh Conditions Migrant Workers Face in South Korea”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2024, Asia Pacific
Origin
- Korean화성(華城)
- EnglishHwaseong
Borrowed from Korean 화성(華城) (Hwaseong).
More words from Korean
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Chinese Mandarin 華城 /华城
- 華城 /华城 (Huáchéng)city in South Korea
Korean 화성
- 화성 (Hwaseong)city in South Korea
Cite this entry
Hwaseong. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hwaseong
“Hwaseong.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hwaseong. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Hwaseong,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hwaseong.
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