Gumi

Proper noun

Gumi

1. A city in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
   • Yang Geong Cheol, a factory manager and a father of two in Gumi, an industrial city south of Seoul, paid for his older daughter’s late-night cram-school classes for six years, but she didn’t get into elite colleges. “It was a waste of money,” he said.2011 April 3, Michael Alison Chandler, “S. Korea tries to wrest control from booming private tutoring industry”, in The Washington Post (World section), Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company...
   • A growing number of cities across South Korea are sponsoring blind-dating events like these for singles, desperate to prod young adults onto a track for marriage and family as the country has recorded the world’s lowest fertility rate for three years in a row.[…]
     In Gumi, an industrial city in...2023 August 7, John Yoon, “Seeking Love, With Help From the City Government”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...