Ulleung

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 울릉(鬱陵) (Ulleung).

Proper noun

Ulleung

1. Synonym of Ulleungdo: An island in Ulleung, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
   • 2022 November 1, Choe Sang-Hun, “North Korea Launches 10 Missiles, Triggering Air-Raid Alarm in South”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on November 2, 2022, Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     The military issued an air-raid alert on Ulleung, an island off South Korea’s east coast with a population of about 9,000. The missile fell into international waters 103 miles northwest of the island.
     “The siren started blaring at 8:55 a.m. and we got a message from our government computer system saying that this is ‘a real-life situation,’” not a mock drill, said Chung Young-hwan, a local official on Ulleung. “We took refuge at an underground shelter for three or four minutes before coming out again.”

3. A county of North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.

Translations

Ulleungdo — see Ulleungdo

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鬱陵／郁陵 (Yùlíng)

• Korean: 울릉(鬱陵) (Ulleung)