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Kangnam

Kangnam is the alternative form of Gangnam.

Meaning of Gangnam

Proper noun

Gangnam

  1. A district (Korean: 구 (gu)) of Seoul, South Korea known for being a demographically young, affluent part of the city.
    • The advanced design studio has moved from Bupyeong, Incheon, to the fashionable Seoul neighborhood of Gangnam, evidently Seoul’s answer to Greenwich Village.2010 April 22, Jim Motavalli, “G.M. Looks for Design Edge With New Studio in Seoul”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19...

Questions about Kangnam

What is Kangnam the alternative form of?
Kangnam is the alternative form of Gangnam.

Words near Kangnam in the dictionary

  1. kanglings
  2. Kanglish
  3. Kanglu
  4. Kanglung
  5. Kanglus
  6. Kangnam
  7. kango
  8. kangooroo
  9. kangooroos
  10. kangos
  11. Kangpar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kangnam (page history and authors); Gangnam (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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