Meanings
- McCune ReischauerromanizationuncountableMcCune-Reischauer romanization of Kangwon (a province of North Korea).
The IUTC is located in Gangwon-do of South Korea. Gangwon-do is a province of South Korea, with its capital at Chuncheon.[…]Its northern boundary is the Military Demarcation Line, separating it from North Korea's Kangwŏn Province.
n.d., “Gangwon province”, in International urban training center, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2022, About us - alternativeuncountableAlternative form of Gangwon (South Korea)
The characters Gomi and Uncle Oppondori are ghosts that have haunted Chi’ak Mountain (in South Korea’s Kangwŏn Province) for thirty years.
2017, Anna Katrina Gutierrez, “Glocal fairy-tale retellings”, in Mixed Magic: Global-local dialogues in fairy tales for young readers, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 492 more examples
Chang Yŏnggŏn was born in 1914 in San’gongni, a collection of small hamlets in the mountains some twenty-five kilometers southwest of Ch’unch’ŏn, the capital of South Korea’s Kangwŏn Province.
1988, Clark W. Sorensen, “Over the Mountains Are Mountains”, in Over the Mountains Are Mountains: Korean Peasant Households and Their Adaptations to Rapid Industrialization, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3In fall 1996, there was a dramatic incursion by a North Korean submarine, which ran aground on the eastern coast of South Korea’s Kangwŏn province, that resulted in shootouts in the forest and collateral deaths of South Korean civilians.
2007, Hyung Gu Lynn, “Decussation Effects? North–South Relations since 1989”, in Bipolar Orders: The Two Koreas since 1989, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 161
Origin
- Korean강원(江原)
- EnglishKangwŏn
Loanword from Korean 강원(江原) (Gang'won).
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Kangwŏn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kangw%C5%8Fn
“Kangwŏn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kangw%C5%8Fn. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Kangwŏn,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kangw%C5%8Fn.
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