Kaesong
Proper noun
Meaning
Kaesong
A city in North Korea.
Synonyms
Examples
Although a symbol of inter-Korean cooperation, the once noble Kaesong experiment has long been a failure.
All operations at the Kaesong Industrial Complex in the socialist country have been halted since early April after the North withdrew its 53,000 workers from the complex amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
Kaesong, located just north of the border, hosts a now-shuttered joint industrial complex.
On the contrary, we felt the Kaesong Industrial Complex was the safest place, because the international community kept an eye out for it.
South Korea also halted a separate tour programme to North Korea's western border city of Kaesong in 2008, a year after Hyundai Asan began the tour to the former capital of Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392).
Thus Seoul government states that it is part of Paju in Gyeonggi Province while Pyongyang claims it to be part of Kaesong.