Masan

American  

[mah-sahn] / ˈmɑ sɑn /

noun

1. a seaport in SE South Korea.

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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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Example Sentences

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

Proceeds, according to fast-moving consumer goods firm Masan would be used to strengthen the its financial positions.

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

And on Dec. 20, 1950, it was buried in a temporary United Nations cemetery in the coastal city of Masan, South Korea.

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2021