Hwaseong

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 화성(華城) (Hwaseong).

Proper noun

Hwaseong

  1. A city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
    • 2024 June 25, Choe Sang-Hun, “Deadly Fire Exposes Harsh Conditions Migrant Workers Face in South Korea”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 June 2024, Asia Pacific‎[2]:
      For more than a dozen of them, their Korean dream came to a horrifying end on Monday, when a toxic inferno engulfed a lithium-battery factory where they had found work. The 22 laborers killed​ in the plant in Hwaseong, a city south of Seoul, included 12 women and five men from China, ranging in age from 23 to 48, officials said. Most were ethnic Koreans.

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