Daegu

/dæˈɡu/ name

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  1. 1
    A city in South Korea.

    "Of the 599 new cases in South Korea announced on Monday, 377 were from the country's fourth largest city, Daegu, home to a branch of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, to which the majority of the country's cases have been traced after some its members visited China's Wuhan city, the epicenter of the disease. More than half of South Korea's 4,000 cases have been linked to Shincheonji."

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"Of all the world's athletes who had gathered in Daegu, surely Bolt was the one who attracted the most attention."

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 대구(大邱) (Daegu, literally “great hill”).

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