Definition of "Kangwŏn"

Chang Yŏnggŏn was born in 1914 in San’gongni, a collection of small hamlets in the mountains some twenty-five kilometers southwest of Ch’unch’ŏn, the capital of South Korea’s Kangwŏn Province.

1988, Clark W. Sorensen, “Over the Mountains Are Mountains”, in Over the Mountains Are Mountains: Korean Peasant Households and Their Adaptations to Rapid Industrialization‎, University of Washington Press, page 3

In fall 1996, there was a dramatic incursion by a North Korean submarine, which ran aground on the eastern coast of South Korea’s Kangwŏn province, that resulted in shootouts in the forest and collateral deaths of South Korean civilians.

2007, Hyung Gu Lynn, “Decussation Effects? North–South Relations since 1989”, in Bipolar Orders: The Two Koreas since 1989‎, page 161

The characters Gomi and Uncle Oppondori are ghosts that have haunted Chi’ak Mountain (in South Korea’s Kangwŏn Province) for thirty years.

2017, Anna Katrina Gutierrez, “Glocal fairy-tale retellings”, in Mixed Magic: Global-local dialogues in fairy tales for young readers‎, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 49