Gumi

name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A city in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.

    "Yang Geong Cheol, a factory manager and a father of two in Gumi, an industrial city south of Seoul, paid for his older daughter’s late-night cram-school classes for six years, but she didn’t get into elite colleges. “It was a waste of money,” he said."

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"Yang Geong Cheol, a factory manager and a father of two in Gumi, an industrial city south of Seoul, paid for his older daughter’s late-night cram-school classes for six years, but she didn’t get into elite colleges. “It was a waste of money,” he said."

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 구미(龜尾) (Gumi).

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