Cheongsong

Ch'ŏngsong lay in the western coastal country of Hwanghae, among plains facing the Yellow Sea. In 1408 the Joseon government joined it with neighbouring Kahwa to create Songhwa county. The resulting district reached from the coast toward the inland settlements of Sinch'ŏn and Ŭnyul, while Changyŏn lay to the south. Its old name survived in the ancestry of families associated with the locality.