Wonsan

Proper noun

Wonsan

1. A city in Kangwon Province, North Korea.
   • The first Korean members of the Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing have been received into the novitiate of the congregation at Wonsan. They were accompanied by a European candidate whose father is a Government official in Korea.1930 August 16, “KOREA.”, in The Tablet, volume 156, number 4,710, page 227, column 2
   • After graduating from a Seoul university, Park's brother settled in the North Korean coastal town of Wonsan as a dentist in 1946. After the war broke out, Park was told by a co-worker that his brother refused to flee to the South because he had a family in the North and was a surgeon in the North...
   • Park fought for the South as a student soldier and was among the allied troops who took over Wonsan in October 1950. The U.S.-led forces advanced farther north in the following weeks before being driven back by a mass of Chinese forces after Beijing intervened in the conflict.2018 August 20, “After decades apart, South Koreans head to North for family reunions”, in France 24, sourced from NEWS WIRES, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2018, Asia / Pacific