Korea Strait

American  

[kuh-ree-uh streyt, kaw-, koh-] / kəˈri ə ˈstreɪt, kɔ-, koʊ- /

noun

1. a strait between Korea and Japan, connecting the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea. 120 miles (195 km) long.

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Korea Strait British  

noun

1. a strait between South Korea and SW Japan, linking the Sea of Japan (East Sea) with the East China Sea

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Etymology

Origin of Korea Strait

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

A slashing gale capsized a ferry in the Korea Strait, causing 137 deaths, and an avalanche in the mountains of north central Japan entombed 19 persons.

From Time Magazine Archive

Koje is a rocky, dun-colored dollop, 20 miles southwest of Pusan in the Korea Strait.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus, they lay nearest to Japan, the Korea Strait alone intervening, and the Korea Strait was almost bridged by islands.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)