光州广域市

光州廣域市

Guāngzhōu Guǎngyùshì

proper noun

Meanings

1 Gwangju Metropolitan City (광주광역시), South Korea

Characters

Examples

HSK 7-9

光州广域市是韩国西南部最大的城市。

Guāngzhōu guǎngyùshì shì Hánguó xīnánbù zuì dà de chéngshì.

Gwangju Metropolitan City is the largest city in southwestern South Korea.

HSK 7-9

1980年的光州事件是韩国民主化运动的转折点。

Yī jiǔ bā líng nián de Guāngzhōu shìjiàn shì Hánguó mínzhǔ huà yùndòng de zhuǎnzhédiǎn.

The 1980 Gwangju Uprising was a turning point in South Korea's democratization.

Tips

culture

Don't confuse this with Guangzhou (广州) in southern China: same characters in Korean Hanja (光州) but a different city. South Korea has six 广域市 ('metropolitan cities'): Busan, Daegu, Incheon, Gwangju, Daejeon, and Ulsan.

history

Gwangju is best known internationally for the May 1980 民主化运动 (democratization movement), brutally suppressed by the Chun Doo-hwan government and now commemorated as a foundational moment of modern Korean democracy.

Stroke Order

光 guāng

州 zhōu

广 guǎng

域 yù

市 shì