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Country: South Korea, Republic Of Korea
Capital: Seoul
Currency: won
Numeric code: 410
Letter code: KRW
The entire South Korean Peninsula and adjacent Islands is the Republic of Korea, often (to avoid confusion) called the South, because there is also the North. Seoul tops the list of Metropolitan areas of the country and is its capital. Ninety nine with the "tail" of thousands of square kilometers belonging to the Republic, rather densely populated: the number of Koreans rapidly approaching forty-nine million.
Modern Korean won, equal to one hundred conov used by Koreans for cash settlement in 1962. However, the hwan, the predecessors of the won, the positions were passed and another four years continued to present a coin a number of countries. 10 Hwang was considered one won, and 50 hwan – five. Finally pulled these denominations from circulation only in 1975.
Finally, in 1966, the surrogate had replaced the real won: one, five and ten. It is interesting to know that the real value of the material of the coins of South Korea one won in 1968 has exceeded their face value. Since that time, the brass 1 won was aluminum. In 1970, bronze in the five and ten won was replaced with brass. At the same time the catalogue of the coins of South Korea enriched a coin of 100 won, two years later, 50 won, and in 1982 – 500 won. In 1983 came a new series of 1, 5, 10, 50, and 100 won.
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