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Yongsan

Yongsan proper noun: a district of Seoul, South Korea.

Proper noun

Yongsan

  1. A district of Seoul, South Korea.
    • Of the 23 criminal suspects that Mr. Son’s team asked prosecutors to indict, the highest-ranking official was Kim Kwang-ho, the chief of the Seoul Metropolitan Police. Only six officials have been arrested so far, including Lee Im-jae, the former chief of police in the Yongsan district, which...2023 January 13, Choe Sang-Hun, “Officials Blame Negligence for Deadly Seoul Crowd Crush”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Jan 2023, Asia Pacific

Origin of Yongsan

From Korean 용산(龍山) (Yongsan)

Questions about Yongsan

What does Yongsan mean?
Yongsan means a district of Seoul, South Korea.
What part of speech is Yongsan?
Yongsan is a proper noun.

Words near Yongsan in the dictionary

  1. Yonglong
  2. Yongnian
  3. Yongning
  4. Yongqing
  5. Yongs
  6. Yongsan
  7. Yongshan
  8. Yongsheng
  9. Yongshou
  10. Yongshu
  11. Yongshun

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