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Encyclopedia > Hamheung
Hamhŭng City
Korean Name
McCune-Reischauer Hamhŭng-shi
Revised Romanization Hamheung-si
Hangul 함흥시
Hanja 咸興市
Statistics
Population ?
Area ?
Government Capital of South Hamgyŏng; former Directly Governed City
Administrative Divisions ?
Region Kwannam
Dialect Hamgyŏng
Split from South Hamgyŏng, 1960
Rejoined North Hamgyŏng, 1967

Hamhŭng (Hamhŭng-shi) is the capital of South Hamgyŏng Province, North Korea. From 1960 to 1967, Hamhŭng was administered separately from South Hamgyŏng as a Directly Governed City (Chik'alshi), but before 1960, and since 1967, the city has been part of South Hamgyŏng Province.


See also

  • List of Korea-related topics


Administrative divisions of North Korea
Directly Governed Cities
P'yŏngyang | Rasŏn
Former Directly Governed Cities

Ch'ŏngjin | Hamhŭng | Kaesŏng | Namp'o

Special Administrative Regions
Kaesŏng Industrial Region | Kŭmgang-san Tourist Region | Shinŭiju Special Administrative Region
Provinces
Chagang | North Hamgyŏng | South Hamgyŏng | North Hwanghae | South Hwanghae | Kangwŏn | North P'yŏngan | South P'yŏngan | Ryanggang

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The W.M.S. raised $6,000 for the school but it "has got lost in the budget" and "some secretary neglected to say that the money was raised for Korea." Donors from Ontario, Nova Scotia and Western Canada sent money for the school but it too is lost in the budget.
Ethel writes that this is simply Hamheung's request "that you urge that the $6,000 for the site and the gift of $10,000 for a building be sent to Korea, at once, in order that a calamity may be averted." Her postscript adds stingingly "Land rises in price after the Korean New Year, early in February.
Please assure Hamheung Station, and especially Miss McEachran, that we are deeply sensible of the very desperate situation, and we are prepared to stand back of her to the limit
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