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  Hamhung Summary
Hamhung is the capital of South Hamgyong Province in North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea).
Hamhung is the center of the chemical industry in North Korea (plastic materials, synthetic tar).
The Hamhung Branch of the Academy of Sciences founded in 1960 is a general research institute involved in the scientific and technological development of the national chemical industry.
www.bookrags.com /Hamhung   (413 words)

  
  Hamhung - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yi Seonggye, the founder of the Yi dynasty, the last imperial line of Korea, was born in the city.
Hamhŭng is on the left branch of the Songchon River, on the eastern part of the Hamhung plain, in South Hamgyong Province, northeast North Korea.
Hamhung is home to the Hamhung University of Education, Hamhung University of Chemistry and Hamhung University of Medicine.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hamhung   (277 words)

  
 Beyond a Wall of Secrecy, Devastation - washingtonpost.com
You can start at Hamhung's local hospital, a dilapidated, cavernous 1,000-bed facility without lights, where the stench of urine fills the dark corridors, and patients recovering from surgery writhe in pain on dirty sheets in unheated rooms.
In addition to Hamhung, which we reached in an old Soviet-made helicopter, we also took a 3 1/2-hour drive north from Pyongyang on the country's main north-south highway into the rugged mountains of Chagang province to the small town of Tongsin, stopping briefly along the way in a slightly larger town, Huichon.
In Hamhung, Lee was asked how long the hospital had been in its state of collapse and shortages.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/18/AR2006101800728_pf.html   (2034 words)

  
 N Korea's Kim Jong-Il Provides Field Guidance to Hamhung University - Science - RedOrbit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Hamhung University of Chemical Industry, which was established on the personal initiative of the President and under his wise guidance and has covered a glorious path, has turned into a reliable seat for training dependable technical personnel, he said, adding that the undying revolutionary exploits performed by the President will shine long.
He said that the Hamhung University of Chemical Industry is a university of merits as it has trained many able technical personnel who would shoulder upon themselves the nation's chemical industry for the last six decades, thus making a great contribution to the building of a rich and powerful country.
He highly appreciated the feats performed by the teachers and students of the university for the Party and the revolution, the country and people, noting that the graduates from the university are now playing a pivotal role in the chemical industry and all other domains of the national economy.
www.redorbit.com /news/science/730318/n_koreas_kim_jongil_provides_field_guidance_to_hamhung_university/index.html?source=r_science   (573 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Beyond a Wall of Secrecy, Devastation
HAMHUNG, North Korea—A visit to this remote and desolate city near North Korea's eastern coast provides a rare glimpse of the country's near-total economic collapse.
You can start at Hamhung's local hospital, a dilapidated, cavernous 1,000-bed facility without lights, where the stench of urine fills the dark corridors, and patients recovering from surgery writhe in pain on dirty sheets in unheated rooms.
In addition to Hamhung, which we reached in an old Soviet-made helicopter, we also took a 3 1/2-hour drive north from Pyongyang on the country's main north-south highway into the rugged mountains of Chagang province to the small town of Tongsin, stopping briefly along the way in a slightly larger town, Huichon.
washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/korea/stories/function.htm   (2079 words)

  
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At the latitude of Hamhung the zone of action assigned the 1MarDiv was 60 miles wide from east to west extending due north to the Manchurian border, narrowing to some 15 miles as it approached the border.
North of Hamhung, in the zone of the division, were two large reservoirs, the Chosin Reservoir in the west and the Fusen Reservoir in the east.
The one axial road in the division zone proceeded north from Hamhung, passed along the east side of the Chosin Reservoir, and thence to the Manchurian border.
libraryautomation.com /nymas/Changjinjournal060228.html   (3306 words)

  
 Korean War Educator: Branch Accounts - Marines - Hungnam Evacuation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The night of 11 December 1950 was a memorable one for the Leathernecks in the warming tents at Hamhung.
Three regiments were designated to proceed by land and sea to Hamhung, while the other three regiments withdrew to Songjin (Map 1) for a lift by sea to the Samchok area.
But as the perimeter narrowed to the Hungnam area after the evacuation of Hamhung and Yonpo, the two cruisers, seven destroyers, and three rocket-firing craft covered the whole front from their assigned positions in mine-swept lanes.
www.koreanwar-educator.org /topics/branch_accounts/marine/p_hungnam_evacuation.htm   (5514 words)

  
 Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea
They haven't been able to invade Pyongyang, however, as once they are found to belong to a violent organization or fighting others in groups, they are evicted out of the capital along with their families.
Notorious North Korean bands are assembled in Hamhung and are reputed to be the most cruel in the North in criminal methods and acts.
Thugs line up in front of Hamhung Station when trains arrive and choose as targets of attack those who are well-dressed and who come from other regions.
english.chosun.com /w21data/html/news/200011/200011010283.html   (568 words)

  
 N Korean Radio Reports Kim Jong-Il Visit to Hamhung University - Science - RedOrbit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
While upholding the party's ideology of placing importance on science, the faculty and students of the Hamhung University of Chemical Industry are stepping up a vigorous march to build a powerful and rich fatherland with science and technology.
Comrade Kim Jong-il said that the Hamhung University of Chemical Industry is a meritorious university that has greatly contributed to the construction of a powerful and rich fatherland by training innumerable able technical personnel - who are carrying the country's chemical industry on their shoulders - over the past six decades.
Comrade Kim Jong-il stressed that, if students are to be cultivated into able scientists and technicians required by the era of information industry, party spirit and working class spirit should be embodied, and identity should be strictly maintained in education; education and practice should be merged; and the methodology of education should be constantly improved.
www.redorbit.com /news/science/732049/n_korean_radio_reports_kim_jongil_visit_to_hamhung_university/index.html?source=r_science   (651 words)

  
 Daily NK - “Gentlemen of Hamkyung Province, Respect the Ladies”
The different views on women in Hamhung and Pyongyang show that there is a clear difference in culture in the two provinces especially marriage culture.
In Pyongyang, it is the tradition that the groom prepares the furniture and the bride prepares all the household goods, while in Hamhung, there was a common saying until the 80s that the bride prepares all the household necessities and the groom can marry in his panties.
When a young women pass by a so-called the person of high birth, referring a man from Hamkyeong province, she stops at the spot and sighs, saying “Oh, today is such a bad day from the start!” or picks up a quarrel with others passing by.
www.dailynk.com /english/read.php?cataId=nk01300&num=95   (1393 words)

  
 Chapter 31: In the Air, "DINNY" O'BRIEN
When the squadron was ordered to move from Pohang to Hamhung I was given the responsibility of moving the airframe support equipment with four other fitters and a canopied three ton truck.
Our short stay at Hamhung, 19 November to 4 December, was virtually one of survival.
When the order came to abandon Hamhung the squadron was a hive of activity and rumour.
www.kmike.com /oz/kr/chapter31.htm   (1227 words)

  
 FOODCULTURE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The pheasant meat is seasoned with various spices and made int meatballs,which are boiled together with the brisket of beef.Coof Pyongyang Narngmuun Soupis produced bu combining this sticj wuth watery radish kimchi.
The most important part of Hamhung Naengmyun is when these squeezed slices are mixed with spices, cucumber and radish.
What distinguishes the Hamhung style from that of Pyongyang is materials used for the noodles.
www.agrotrade.net /html/agrafood/9709/naeng.htm   (811 words)

  
 ReliefWeb » Professional Resources » Vacancies
The workshop is based in Hamhung, a city on the Northeast coast.
Although HI is the only organisation having expatriates permanently based in Hamhung, other expatriates often stays at the hotel (another HI expatriate should also be based in Hamhung).
Due to the bad conditions of the road, between Pyongyang and Hamhung, no expatriates travel to Hamhung on a regular basis between December and the end of February.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/res.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-6X6J9A?OpenDocument&RSS20=07-P   (964 words)

  
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In 1962, the apostolic vicariate of Hamhung was elevated to a diocese.
The Benedictines re-established themselves in Waegwan, South Korea, in the territory of Daegu archdiocese, after 29 German and Korean Benedictines including Bishop Bonifatius Sauer were executed or died in prison camps during the Korean War.
Bishop Chang told UCA News on Jan. 4 that since half of his diocese's territory is in North Korea and near to Hamhung diocese, the Holy See assigned him as apostolic administrator of the diocese.
www.catholic.org /printer_friendly.php?id=18215§ion=Cathcom   (755 words)

  
 Past news
He was briefed before the panoramic map of the farm with 51 branches and gave on-site guidance to the Hamhung Farm Branch.
Looking round goat sheds and cosy modern houses built to suit the features of the mountainous area, he acquainted himself in detail with their construction and goat breeding.
Commanding a bird's-eye view of the farm, he was greatly satisfied to learn that the Hamhung workers, the party members and other working people in South Hamgyong Province and the city built such a modern goat farm in a matter of a few years.
www.kcna.co.jp /item/2001/200105/news05/27.htm   (1583 words)

  
 Daily NK - Scenes of the Inside of the Train from Chongjin to Hamhung in North Korea
Scenes of the Inside of the Train from Chongjin to Hamhung in North Korea
This second article of the series shows various scenes on a train between Chongjin and Hamhung.
Hamhung is the second largest city in North Korea so many people are seen in front of the station.
www.dailynk.com /english/read.php?cataId=nk00100&num=399   (932 words)

  
 Eyewitness 20: The Battle of Hamhung
Eight miles northwest of Hungnam is Hamhung, the capital city of the Ham-kyong-nam-do Province.
His wife #3 is staying out in Hamhung - she is caring for her sick mother who cannot be moved.
The communists guards at the Hamhung Reformatory (the same prison where my father was jailed by the Japanese) killed all political prisoners and dumped the bodies into wells.
www.kimsoft.com /korea/eyewit20.htm   (3593 words)

  
 Mission 87
As I approached Hungnam, I noted a widespread layer of clouds north of Hamhung, directly between me and the reservoir.
I decided to descend from my en route altitude of I suppose thirty thousand feet, to below contrail level so as to be underneath the clouds for a run into the target.
In my decent over the marshaling yards north of Hamhung, I was just about at the base of the clouds and slipping underneath the cloud layer when I was hit by what I assumed to be AAA.
www.cottonpickers.org /mission1.htm   (854 words)

  
 The Yalu to Hungnam
He then retreated to Hamhung where he flew mission in and out of the Chosin Reservoir before crash landing near Koto-ri.
The weather at Hamhung was about freezing but at the Chosin Reservoir it was around zero in the daytime and 20 below at night.
I was in a glide for ten or fifteen minutes and had our forward position along the road in view.
homepage.mac.com /ravnhaus/Stegall/korea.html   (2897 words)

  
 Aircraft in Action at MiGMan's Flight Sim Museum - www.migman.com
In November the Squadron moved again, going north to Hamhung in North Korea where ground crews had to sweep snow from the wings of the Mustangs before the pilots took off on missions.
Servicing aircraft was a constant battle against the freezing conditions, but wlth the Chlnese armies now pushing south- wards from Manchuria, the RAAF had to maintain a maximum combat effort.
Flying out of Hamhung the RAAF pilots struck heavily at Chinese transports pouring down the roads out of Manchuria.
www.migman.com /ref/ac/RAAF_Korea/4_hamhung.htm   (153 words)

  
 Untitled Document
On 2 November, the 7th Marine Regiment relieved the ROK 26th Regiment in an area north of Hamhung and in the direction of the Chosin Reservoir.
I was personally present and when I learned the extend of the threat that eventually plagued the Marines in their withdrawal, I could report to General MacArthur that the possibility of further advance and the possibility of retaining the position of the Chosin Reservoir area was rather grim.
GENERAL ALMOND: The Marines then moved as rapidly as possible bringing their equipment with them to the Hamhung area and, as I say, when they got halfway to Hamhung from Hagaru-ri they no longer had to furnish their own patrolling but this was taken over by the task force under General Mead.
www.chosinreservoir.com /almondinterview.htm   (4326 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Hamhung, Japan (Japanese Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Hamhung, Japan (Japanese Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Textiles, metalware, machinery, and chemicals are produced, oil is refined, and food is processed.
The founder of the Yi dynasty, the last imperial line of Korea, was born in Hamhung.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/Hamhung.html   (151 words)

  
 Medal of Honor Recipients - P - R
On 29 November, Colonel Page left X Corps Headquarters at Hamhung with the mission of establishing traffic control on the main supply route to 1st Marine Division positions and those of some Army elements on the Chosin Reservoir plateau.
Having completed his mission Colonel Page was free to return to the safety of Hamhung but chose to remain on the plateau to aid an isolated signal station, thus being cut off with elements of the marine division.
After 10 days of constant fighting the marine and army units in the vicinity of the Chosin Reservoir had succeeded in gathering at the edge of the plateau and Colonel Page was flown to Hamhung to arrange for artillery support of the beleaguered troops attempting to break out.
korea50.army.mil /history/moh/pqr.shtml   (3706 words)

  
 Hamhung, North Korea News - Topix
Hamhung, North Korea News continually updated by readers like you.
From North Korea's Korea News Pyongyang, April 9 Dancing parties of youth and students were held in different parts of the country on Monday to mark the 14th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's election as...
I edit the Hamhung, North Korea News pages on Topix when no humans are available to help.
www.topix.net /kp/hamhung   (498 words)

  
 Chemical Weapons - North Korean Special Weapons Facilities
There is generally fairly good agreement between the two version of this map, with the annoying exception of the second production facility in the vicinity of Hamhung [tentatively identified as Sinhung], and the displacement of the coastal facility that is apparently Ch'ongjin.
There is general agreement among these various sources that the North Korean chemical weapons program is centered in three or four research facilities, along with at least seven or eight production facilities, for a total of between ten and twelve locations.
The four probable research facilities may be fairly readily identified as being located at Hamhung, Kanggye, Pyongsong, and Sinuiju, in addition to the probable training facility at Hungnam.
www.fas.org /nuke/guide/dprk/facility/cw.htm   (1023 words)

  
 History for Co A 772nd MP BN
At this time, the men of the 772nd Military Police Battalion were stationed in the area of Hamhung under command of X Corps Provost Marshal.
On 3 December northern check points of the city were reinforced and the armored car section was placed on security of the critical 2nd Street bridge that led from Hamhung to Hungnam.
Most of companies B and C were dispatched to the southern edge of Hamhung to turn them back.
www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageHistory/1,13506,738018|797831,00.html   (1286 words)

  
 Book 'A Year in Pyongyang - North Korea' by Andrew Holloway
Sami had often told me how much he liked the northern industrial city of Hamhung and mentioned that a trip there always incorporated a day on the beach as well as guided tours of major factories such as the Ryongsang heavy Machine Factory and the February 8th Vindon Complex.
I couched my request to go to Hamhung in terms of desire to see something of North Korea's brilliant heavy industry in action and, although I had already had more excursions than any other reviser that summer, I was able to go to Hamhung as well.
I was particularly grateful for this aspect of the people of the Hamhung area on the Sunday, when we went to the beach twenty kilometres away.
www.aidanfc.net /a_year_in_pyongyang_21.html   (1385 words)

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