Goseong

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 고성(高城) (Goseong).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: kôʹsǔngʹ[1]

Proper noun

Goseong

  1. A county of Gangwon Province, South Korea.
    • 2014 June 22, “S. Korean troops in gun battle”, in Deutsche Welle‎[2], sourced from rc/mkg (AP, AFP, dpa, Reuters), archived from the original on 03 June 2025‎[3]:
      The runaway soldier was reported to have opened fire on troops who had tracked him down near a school in the Goseong region, close to the North Korean border.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kosong”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 975, column 1: “Kosong (kôʹsǔngʹ), Jap. [Japanese] Kojo,”
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