Word.ws English Dictionary

Yongin

Yongin proper noun: a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.

Proper noun

Yongin

  1. A city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
    • Yongin, a city of about a million people south of Seoul, the capital, has been in talks with the central government about financial support for businesses near the Ramada, Mayor Baek Gun-gi said at a news conference on Tuesday.2020 July 4, Choe Sang-Hun, “How’s Your Quarantine? If No One’s Banging Gongs, Count Your Blessings”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2020, The Coronavirus...
    • Samsung Electronics is set to invest 500 trillion won ($375 billion) in the project, allocating 360 trillion won for six new production facilities in Yongin, located 33 kilometers (20 miles) south of Seoul.2024 January 24, Martin Fritz, “South Korea invests big in becoming a global chip leader”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2024, Technology

Origin of Yongin

Borrowed from Korean 용인(龍仁) (Yong'in).

Questions about Yongin

What does Yongin mean?
Yongin means a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
What part of speech is Yongin?
Yongin is a proper noun.

Words near Yongin in the dictionary

  1. Yongdae Gap
  2. Yongding
  3. Yonge
  4. Yongean
  5. Yonghe
  6. Yongin
  7. Yongji
  8. Yongjia
  9. Yongjing
  10. Yonglong
  11. Yongnian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Yongin (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Yongin.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/yongin. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.