Taedong
name ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The river that flows through Pyongyang in North Korea.
"Mr. Oh, who now lives in Seoul, knows that his parents have died — they would have been over 100 by now — but he found out only this month that his two sisters were alive in North Korea. And his kid brother, the little rascal he taught to swim in the Taedong River in Pyongyang, is also alive."
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More examples"Mr. Oh, who now lives in Seoul, knows that his parents have died — they would have been over 100 by now — but he found out only this month that his two sisters were alive in North Korea. And his kid brother, the little rascal he taught to swim in the Taedong River in Pyongyang, is also alive."
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 대동강(大同江) (Daedonggang).
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