Meanings
- A city in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
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Mr. Kang’s day begins at 6 a.m., when he serves his 13 fighting bulls the first of four hot meals a day. On this morning, Mr. Kang was busy stoking the fire under a caldron filled with bean sprouts, rice stalks, corn, yams, potatoes, pumpkin chunks and anchovies a stark contrast to the factory feed that goes to ordinary cattle at Mr. Kang’s ranch in Jinju, about 180 miles south of Seoul.
2022 October 24, Choe Sang-Hun, “No Red Cape, or Red Ink, in South Korean Bullrings”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2009, Asia Pacific
Origin
- Korean^진주(晋州)
- Korean^진주(晋州)
- EnglishJinju
Borrowed from Korean 진주(晋州) (Jinju).
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Jinju. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jinju
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