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.

KOREA _ NORTH

The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North Korea)is a country in the northern half of the Korean peninsula between the Peoples Republic of China and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) with it's capital city of Pyongyang. The Japanese annexed the peninsula in 1910 and occupied it until their defeat after WWII when Us troops occupied the south and Soviet troops occupied the north. In 1943 the Cairo conference declared that Korea should be "free and independent" but the Potsdam Conference  had to impose a line on the 38th parallel to divide the  two occupying forces. In august 1948 South korea declared itself the republic of Korea and then 10 days later the north declared itself the DPRK.

Monetary unit: 1 Won = 100 Chon

The notes above are the 50 won and 5 won notes. The 50 won note from 1992 has workers on the front with the monument to the 5 year plan in the centre left and a pine Forrest scene on the reverse.
The 5 won note from 1998 and has students on the front and a modern building on the back.

The Korean language is written in Hangul and historically in Hanja