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Masan

American  
[mah-sahn] / ˈmɑ sɑn /

noun

  1. a seaport in SE South Korea.


Masan British  
/ ˈmɑːˌsɑːn /

noun

  1. a port in SE South Korea, on an inlet of the Korea Strait: first opened to foreign trade in 1899. Pop: 428 000 (2005 est)

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U.S. tungsten supplier Elmet Group agreed to acquire a 4.99% stake in Vietnamese miner Masan High-Tech Materials for about $125 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Kokang has sent some 26,000 people over back to China in recent weeks, said Yin Masan, head of the Administrative office in Kokang.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

"Masan has the right fundamentals, reach, and growth strategy to succeed in a high-growth and compelling consumer market," Bain partner Barnaby Lyons said in the joint statement.

From Reuters ● Oct. 2, 2023

Then one day in what I would learn was 1957, I woke up at the Mah San Orphanage in the city of Masan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2022

The conflict had cut short his first year at art school, and he had been forced into service, first by the North, then by the South, stationed in coastal Masan.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2021

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