Uiju

Proper noun

Uiju

1. A county of North Pyongan Province, North Korea.
   • It is learned on good authority that China intends to dispatch troops to Korea by land, and they are said to have already reached Uiju.1894 July 28 [1894 July 27], “[FROM JAPANESE PAPERS.]”, in The Japan Weekly Mail, volume XXII, number 4, Yokohama, sourced from Tientsin, page 113, column 1
   • Article 5 permitted Chinese and Koreans to trade at Ch’aengmun and Ŭiju on the Yalu River and at Hun-ch’un and Hoeryŏng on the Tumen River, the duties to be 5 percent ad valorem on all goods except red ginseng.1977, Martina Deuchler, “Korea Between China and Japan”, in Confucian Gentlemen and Barbarian Envoys: The Opening of Korea, 1875-1885, University of Washington Press, published 1983, →ISBN, →LCCN...

   Synonyms:

   I-chou