Jinsen

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 仁川(じんせん) (jinsen).

• enPR: jēnʹsān^[1]
• Rhymes: -eɪn

Jinsen

1. (historical) Synonym of Incheon, a major city in South Korea: the Japanese-derived name.
   • 2014, Morgan Rielly, “Phil Curran: Choose Your Friends Carefully”, in Neighborhood Heroes: Life Lessons from Maine's Greatest Generation‎^[2] (Biography), Camden, Maine: Down East Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 111:

     Barbey and his staff arrived at Jinsen (now Incheon), Korea, on September 8. The next day, the Japanese emperor surrendered all his country’s ground and air forces in Korea south of the 38th parallel to Admiral Barbey’s group of officers, led by General Hodge and Admiral Kinkaid.

   • 2021, “History of Miso and Its Near Realtives: 5890 References in Chronological Order”, in William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, compilers, History of Miso and Its Near Relatives - (200 BCE to 2021): Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook‎^[3], sourced from Dorsett, P.H. and Morse, W.J. 1929. Soybeans in Chosen (Korea) (Document part). In: P.H. Dorsett and W.J. Morse. 1928-1932. Agricultural Explorations in Japan, Chosen (Korea) Northeastern China, Taiwan (Formosa), Singapore, Java, Sumatra and Ceylon. Washington, DC: Foreign Plant Introduction and Forage Crop Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, USDA. 8,818 p. Unpublished log., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 508, column 1:

     Page 2869 (4 Nov. 1929). "We left Keijo at 7:30 a.m. and arrived in Suigen at 7:45. [We visited] a farmers street markert. We thought we would likely find a good collection of locally grown soybeans..." But they found nothing of interest. They then arrived at Jinsen [today's Incheon, west of Seoul] at 12:25. “Jinsen is a domestic and foreign shipping port for soybeans and other farm products as well as commercial products.”