Gumi

Borrowed from Korean 구미(龜尾) (Gumi).

Gumi

1. A city in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
   • 2011 April 3, Michael Alison Chandler, “S. Korea tries to wrest control from booming private tutoring industry”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 December 2014, World‎^[2]:

     Yang Geong Cheol, a factory manager and a father of two in Gumi, an industrial city south of Seoul, paid for his older daughter’s late-night cram-school classes for six years, but she didn’t get into elite colleges. “It was a waste of money,” he said.

   • 2023 August 7, John Yoon, “Seeking Love, With Help From the City Government”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 August 2023, Asia Pacific‎^[4]:

     A growing number of cities across South Korea are sponsoring blind-dating events like these for singles, desperate to prod young adults onto a track for marriage and family as the country has recorded the world’s lowest fertility rate for three years in a row. […]
     In Gumi, an industrial city in central South Korea, 13 couples who met through the events have gotten married since 2016.