Vladivostok: China’s New Transit Hub for Domestic Shipments


Vladivostok, known as “Haishenwai” in Chinese, translates to “a bay full of sea cucumbers.” Prior to its handover to Russia in 1858, Chinese residents relied on fishing sea cucumbers as a means of livelihood in the region. A similar case can be observed in San Francisco, known as “Jiujinshan” in Chinese, which literally means “old gold mountain.” This name originates from the fact that Chinese immigrants initially arrived in San Francisco as gold miners, driven by the pursuit of their fortune during the era of the Gold Rush. Then, what do you think Phoenix is called in Chinese? Itโ€™s โ€œFenghuangchengโ€, which literally means โ€œthe City of the Phoenix.โ€ In China, foreign words are sometimes written to mimic their original sounds, but more often theyโ€™re translated in a way that conveys the meaning behind them. As for Korean cities, since they already have their own Chinese characters, we simply use those rather than translating them.

๋ธ”๋ผ๋””๋ณด์Šคํ† ํฌ๋Š” ์ค‘๊ตญ์–ด๋กœ “ํ•ด์‚ผ์™ธ(ๆตทๅ‚ๅดด)โ€™๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋šฏ์€ โ€˜ํ•ด์‚ผ์ด ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•œ ๋งŒโ€™์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋œป์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1858๋…„ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์— ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์ „๊นŒ์ง€ ์ด ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ์ค‘๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์€ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ํ•ด์‚ผ ์žก์ด๋ฅผ ์ƒ๊ณ„์ˆ˜๋‹จ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ผ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋กœ “์ƒŒํ”„๋ž€์‹œ์Šค์ฝ”” ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘๊ตญ์–ด๋กœ “๊ตฌ๊ธˆ์‚ฐ(ๆ—ง้‡‘ๅฑฑ)โ€™, ์ฆ‰ โ€˜์˜›๋‚ ์˜ ๊ธˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋œ ์‚ฐโ€™์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฅด๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๊ณจ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ ์‹œ๋Œ€์— ์ผํ™•์ฒœ๊ธˆ์„ ๊ฟˆ๊พธ๋ฉฐ ์ด์ฃผํ•œ ์ค‘๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋น„๋กฏ๋œ ์ด๋ฆ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ํ”ผ๋‹‰์Šค๋Š” ์ค‘๊ตญ์–ด๋กœ ๋ญ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ• ๊นŒ์š”? ๋ฐ”๋กœ โ€˜๋ด‰ํ™ฉ์„ฑ(้ณณๅ‡ฐๅŸŽ)โ€™, ๋ด‰ํ™ฉ์˜ ๋„์‹œ! ์ค‘๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ์™ธ๋ž˜์–ด๋ฅผ ํ•œ๊ธ€์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ฎ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์‚ด๋ ค ์˜์—ญํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋„ ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ๋„์‹œ ์ด๋ฆ„์€ ์ด๋ฏธ ํ•œ์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ๋ฒˆ์—ญํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ทธ ํ•œ์ž๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Starting from June 1st, 2023, goods originating from Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces in northeastern China will now have the opportunity to be transported to domestic destinations through the Vladivostok port. This new arrangement is expected to bring about a substantial reduction in transportation costs.

2023๋…„ 6์›” 1์ผ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ค‘๊ตญ ๋™๋ถ์ง€๋ฐฉ ์ง€๋ฆฐ์„ฑ๊ณผ ํ—ค์ด๋ฃฝ์žฅ์„ฑ์—์„œ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„ ๋ธ”๋ผ๋””๋ณด์Šคํ†ก์„ ์ค‘๊ณ„ํ•ญ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์šฉํ•ด ๋™๋‚จ๋ถ€ ์ง€๋ฐฉ๊ณผ ๊ตญ๋‚ด ๋ฌด์—ญ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์šด์†ก ๋น„์šฉ์„ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์ ˆ๊ฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.