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Gangwon
(redirected from Kangwon Province)

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Gangwon or Kangwon (gäng`wŭn`), province (1995 pop. 1,466,794), N South Korea. Chuncheon Chuncheon or Chunchon , city (1993 pop. 179,372), capital of Gangwon (Kangwon) prov., N South Korea. It is an important market town and rice-processing center with rail and road links to Seoul.
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 is the capital. The 38th parallel that divided Korea after World War II ran through Gangwon, but after the Korean War truce of 1953 much of the province returned from North to South Korean rule. Mining (iron, coal, tungsten, fluorite), farming, and fishing are chief economic activities in the province.


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Even last year, we had a campaign in Kangwon Province of getting by with two meals a day.
Hong's "tales of cinema" are often bifurcated, with each half reflecting or counterpointing the other, as in his early masterpiece, The Power of Kangwon Province (1998), which presents one story, about a young woman on vacation in the eponymous setting; then another, about a professor taking a trip to the same place; and then, in a cubist coup, reveals them as simultaneous and interconnected.
At 0500, General Kim Dong Jin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Headquarters, ROK Defense Ministry, ordered a Chindogae One (alert order) across Kangwon Province and surrounding areas.
 
 
 
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