Kaesong

Borrowed from Korean 개성(開城) (Gaeseong).

Kaesong

1. A city in North Korea.
   • 2016 February 10, Choe Sang-hun, “South Korea to Shut Joint Factory Park, Kaesong, Over Nuclear Test and Rocket”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 February 2016, Asia Pacific‎:

     In announcing the decision, Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo said the industrial complex in the North Korean border town of Kaesong, which went into operation in 2004, had wound up providing funds for the North’s weapons programs.

   • 2020 July 26, “Coronavirus: North Korea locks down Kaesong over suspected case”, in Deutsche Welle‎, archived from the original on 27 July 2020, News‎:

     Kaesong, a city with an estimated 200,000 people, is located just north of the heavily fortified land border with South Korea.

• Kaesong at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Kaesong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1474, column 3

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