Pyeonghae

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1. A town in North Gyeongsang, South Korea, formerly important as a harbor.

   When we reached the water, near Pyeonghae, we merged onto a road that ran along the coast and headed south. As we drove, we could hear the breakers crashing loudly onto sections of rugged windswept beach and rocky outcroppings.

   2016, Mark Dake, chapter 21, in South Korea: The Enigmatic Peninsula, Toronto: Dundrun Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 299

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   Over the mountains to the east of Samgun Village, in North Kyongsang Province, in the particularly ill-circumstanced village of Pyonghae, village leader Kim Ju Shik sought in vain to reforest surrounding hillsides through local investment and effort until a typhoon struck and left washed-away homes and rock-inundated fields behind it; in disaster's aftermath, the village rallied behind Kim and in two years 41 hectares of hillsides were covered with thriving big-cone pines that will soon bring a forest-products harvest of several hundred million won, as well as physical protection, to Samgun.

   [1977, Michael Keon, “The Climate of Confidence”, in Korean Phoenix: A Nation from the Ashes, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall International, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 98

   The area has two notable mountains—Mt. Paekamsan (3,020 feet), inland from the coastal town of Pyeonghae, where you can take in Paekam Hot Springs on the same trip; and, Mt. Taebaeksan (4,700 feet), inland from the coastal town of Chukbyon, with the option of visiting Tokgu Hot Springs on your return trip to the coastal road.

   1983, “East Coastal Area”, in James Louttit, editor, Fodor's Korea, 1st edition, New York: Fodor's Travel Guides, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 92