pyeong

alternative p'yong · alternative pyong · alternative pyung

1. A unit of area in Korea, used especially for floorspace, equivalent to 3.3058 m².

   Now we live in one of the new towns in a twenty-eight-pyeong apartment we bought on installment.

   2006, Gong Ji young, translated by Bruce Fulton and Ju-chan Fulton, Human Decency, page 85

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   According to a top-secret document of Japanese imperialism entitled “A Study of Communist Bandits in Manchuria,” peasants of the east district of Santaowan in Yenchi county, were given an average of 4,800 pyung(one pyung equals 3.305 square metres) per household.

   [1969, Baik Bong, “Cradle of the Revolution—Liberated Areas”, in Kim Il Sung Biography: From Birth to Triumphant Return to Homeland, volume I, Tokyo: Miraisha, →OCLC, page 185

   It was an eight-p'yong studio on the second floor below ground level of K group's headquarters, provided as part of their corporate sponsorship drive […].

   2015, Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith, The Vegetarian, Granta, published 2018, page 57