SOUTH KOREA'S 1000 WON NOTE

This note is a 1000 won note from 2007 and issue by the Bank of Korea to the south Korean economy. The front has the Korean Confucius scholar Yi Hwang and the reverse has a painting by the korean painter Jeong Seon, of Dosan Seowon.

North and south Korea divided in 1948 at the start of the cold war and have been on bad terms ever since

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KOREA _ SOUTH

The Republic of Korea (south Korea) is the southern half of the Korean peninsula with its capital city as Seoul. separated from the north in 1946 after the japanese occupation came to an end following the end of WWII.

Monetary units;
1 Won (Hwan) = 100 chon
1 new Won = 10 Hwan = 100 Jeon(1962 onward)

These two notes above are tiny and are the 50 and 10 Jeon from 1962.