Daegu

A city in South Korea.

Proper noun

  1. A city in South Korea.
    • Of the 599 new cases in South Korea announced on Monday, 377 were from the country's fourth largest city, Daegu, home to a branch of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, to which the majority of the country's cases have...
    • In a densely populated but otherwise quiet district in Daegu, a city in southeastern South Korea, a highly emotional standoff is underway. - 2022 March 1, Choe Sang-Hun, “How ‘Multiculturalism’ Became a Bad Word in...

Origin

Borrowed from Korean 대구(大邱) (Daegu, literally “great hill”).

Forms

Taegu

Wikipedia

Daegu