Kyongwon

English

Etymology

From Korean 경원(慶源) (gyeong'won).

Proper noun

Kyongwon

1. A county of North Hamgyong Province, North Korea.
   • [1882, G. W. Keeton, “Regulations for Maritime and Overland Trade between Chinese and Korean Subjects, 1882”, in The Development of Extraterritoriality in China‎^[1], volume II, Longmans, Green & Co., published 1928, →OCLC, page 341:

     Article V.—In consideration of the numerous difficulties arising from the authority exercised by local officials over the legal traffic at such places on the boundary as I-chou, Hui-ning, and Ch’ing-yuan, it has now been decided that the people on the frontier shall be free to go to and fro and trade as they please at Ts’e-men and I-chou on the two sides of the Ya-lu River, and at Hun-ch’un and Hui-ning on the two sides of the T’u-men River.

     (Note: Ch’ing-yuan is the Mandarin-derived name (Wade-Giles) for Kyongwon.)]

   • 1968, Hae-jong Chun, “Sino-Korean Tributary Relations in the Ch’ing Period”, in John King Fairbank, editor, The Chinese World Order: Traditional China's Foreign Relations‎^[2], Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 108:

     Furthermore, border trade between the two countries was conducted at Chunggang (Chung-chiang), a small island in the estuary of the Yalu, Hoeryŏng (Hui-ning), and Kyŏng’wŏn (Ch’ing-yüan). The last two places are in the lower Tumen valley.

   • 1988, Dae-Sook Suh, Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader‎^[3], New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 356:

     An, one of the closest comrades of Kim II Sung from Manchuria, was also known as An Sang-gil. He was born on February 24, 1907, in Kyŏngwŏn, Hamgyŏng pukto, and participated in Kim’s guerrilla forces all during the 1930s.

   • 2007, Andre Schmid, “Tributary Relations and the Qing-Chosŏn Frontier on Mount Paektu”, in Diana Lary, editor, The Chinese State at the Borders‎^[4], UBC Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 137:

     Before heading into Wiwŏn, Mukedeng announced that, after inspecting the corpses and the border-crossing site, he would head upriver through the Kanggye region, travelling all the way to Kyongwon on the lower reaches of the Tumen River.

   • 2013 July, “The Reality of Civil and Political Rights”, in White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea 2013‎^[5], Korea Institute for National Unification, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 136:

     North Korean defector XXX testified that he/she was detained at Jongori Correctional Center in 2010. At the time, XXX (man, age 27 at the time) from Kyongwon County, North Hamgyoung province, was caught stealing cooked rice from the dining hall. He was forced to carry outside and bury human waste. When agents found him unable to fulfill the task, they beat him to death, after dragging him around.

   • 2020 August 7, Sang-Hun Choe, “For P.O.W., Landmark Verdict Against North Korea Is Long-Overdue Justice”, in The New York Times‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-07, Asia Pacific‎^[7]:

     Mr. Han, who retired from the Hamyon coal mines at age 60, was living in Kyongwon, in northeast North Korea, when a man showed up in August 2001, asking whether he wanted to meet his South Korean relatives. Mr. Han said he followed the man across the river border to China, his youngest son tagging along.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kyongwon.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 慶源／庆源

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 경원 (gyeong'won)

Further reading

• Kyongwon at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.