Hungnamとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Korean 흥남(興南) (Heungnam).

発音

• enPR: ho͝ongʹnämʹ

固有名詞

Hungnam

1. A district of Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province, North Korea.
   • 2000 December 27, Steve Vogel, “U.S. Remembers Heroic Evacuation From Besieged North Korean Port”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 04, 2024:

     With communist forces attacking the U.S. perimeter around Hungnam, U.S. ships, aided by the merchant marine, were able to evacuate more than 100,000 military personnel and approximately 100,000 North Korean refugees.

   • 2017 May 9, Hyunjoo Jin, Cynthia Kim, Ju-min Park, Joyce Lee, Jack Kim, “South Korea's shy new President Moon hits the spotlight”, in Soyoung Kim, Bill Tarrant, editors, Reuters‎, archived from the original on February 08, 2018‎:

     Moon was born on Jan. 24, 1953, during the Korean War, on Geoje island off the southern tip of the peninsula. His parents had fled from the North during the war, sailing for three days on the deck of a U.S. ship packed with refugees.
     “I was thinking I wanted to finish my life there in Hungnam doing pro-bono service," he said in his book published in January, referring to his parents' hometown on North Korea's east coast.

   • 2021 September 5, Choe Sang-Hun, “As Afghan Refugee Crisis Unfolds, Survivors Recall ‘Miracle’ Evacuation”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on September 06, 2021, Taliban Takeover in Afghanistan‎:

     Mr. Sohn’s parents were among 91,000 refugees that the American military evacuated from Hungnam, a port on the eastern coast of North Korea, in a frantic retreat from Chinese Communist troops during the Korean War in 1950. They boarded the last ship leaving the port with refugees — the S.S. Meredith Victory, a United States merchant marine cargo freighter.

参照

Further reading

• Hungnam at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hungnam”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1335, column 1