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The name 'Pyongyang' derives from the Sino-Korean words 平 (flat) and 壤 (land). It is the McCune-Reischauer romanisation of the Korean term '평양', which translates to 'flat land', reflecting the smooth terrain of the city.
Other scholars believe 朝鮮 was a translation (like Japanese kun'yomi) of the native Korean Asadal (아사달), the capital of Gojoseon: asa being a hypothetical Altaic root word for "morning", and dal meaning "mountain", a common ending for Goguryeo place names (with the use of the character 鮮 "fresh" to transcribe the final -dal syllable ...
The name Seoul (서울; IPA: /səˈul/), was originally an old native Korean common noun meaning "capital city."It is believed to have originated from Seorabeol (서라벌; 徐羅伐), [1] which originally referred to Gyeongju, the capital of Silla, which was then called Geumseong (금성; 金城). [2]
Most Korean place names derive either from the Korean language and its predecessors on the Korean peninsula, or from Chinese. However, Korean place names cannot be directly translated from the literal meanings of the different elements which amount to the name itself. Historical factors could also shape the meaning of the city name as well.
The etymology of "Asadal" is uncertain. One hypothesis is that the word 아사달 is a compound composed of two elements, asa + dal; this hypothesis is primarily motivated by an assumption of equivalence between the Chinese phonetic transcription 阿斯達 Asīdá and the word 조선 Joseon (朝鮮, Cháoxiǎn or Cháoxiān, in Chinese), another name for Korea.
Japanese exonyms are the names of places in the Japanese language that differ from the name given in the place's dominant language.. While Japanese names of places that are not derived from the Chinese language generally tend to represent the endonym or the English exonym as phonetically accurately as possible, the Japanese terms for some place names are obscured, either because the name was ...
Pyongyang (Korean: 평양관) is a restaurant chain named after the capital of North Korea, with around 130 locations worldwide. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The restaurants are owned and operated by the Haedanghwa Group , an organization of the government of North Korea .
South Korean sources claim that Kim Il-sung named the city. The name comes from combining Pyongyang and the word for fortress in Korean. [4] In 1995, Toksong-dong, Paesan-dong, Songnyong-dong and a part of Jikyong-dong were split from the city and placed under the jurisdiction of Pyongyang through Unjong-guyok. The rest of Jikyong-dong was ...