Bucheon

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 부천(富川) (Bucheon).

Proper noun

Bucheon

  1. A city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
    • 2020 May 27, Min Joo Kim, “Live updates: Trump defends coronavirus response as other officials raise calls to wear face masks”, in The Washington Post‎[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2020‎[2]:
      At least 36 cases have been traced to an outbreak at Coupang’s logistics center in city of Bucheon near the capital, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.
    • 2023 May 16, Jin Yu Young, “South Korea Wants More Babies, Just Not in These Places”, in The New York Times‎[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 May 2023, Asia Pacific‎[4]:
      Ms. Yong was born in 1990 in Bucheon, a city on the outskirts of Seoul, and became a lawmaker in 2020.

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