Gyeongsang

Proper noun

Gyeongsang

1. A province of South Korea.
   • The key to the latter, showing the entire kingdom, as well as one of the expanded sheets showing the Kyöngsang province in the southeast, and the Nakdong river, the most important stream of the land, are appended to this paper, and will serve to indicate the progress independently attained by the...[1890 August, J. B. Bernadou, “Korea and the Koreans”, in The National Geographic Magazine, volume II, number 4, Washington, D. C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 234
   • My mother identifies herself as being from the countryside of Gyeongsang, a southeastern province in the southern half of the Korean peninsula, yet most of her life was spent being displaced from her hometown by the forces of colonization, war, rural poverty, and migration to the United States. The...2008, Grace M. Cho, “Introduction: The Fabric of Erasure”, in Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15