Gimpo

English

Alternative forms

  • (dated) Kimpo

Etymology

From Korean 김포(金浦) (Gimpo).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Gimpo

  1. A city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
    • 2011 February 2, Jason Strother, “Yeonpyeong residents waiting to go home”, in Anne Thomas, editor, Deutsche Welle‎[1], archived from the original on 25 May 2011, Asia‎[2]:
      Han Bok Yeo welcomed me to her 7th floor apartment in Gimpo City. It’s an hour by train from Seoul and a four and a half hour ride by bus and ferry to her real home on Seo-Yeonpyeong Island, a smaller islet that also came under fire by North Korea on November 23.
    • 2020 July 28, Choe Sang-Hun, “North Korea Thinks He Brought Covid-19. The South Wanted to Arrest Him.”, in The New York Times‎[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 July 2020‎[4]:
      Mr. Kim settled in Gimpo, a city across the Han River from Kaesong.

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