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The South Korean won (Symbol: ₩; Code: KRW; Korean: 대한민국 원) is the official currency of South Korea. A single won is divided into 100 jeon, the monetary subunit. The jeon is no longer used for everyday transactions, and it appears only in foreign exchange rates.
South Korean won, the present currency of South Korea; North Korean won, the present currency of North Korea; It can also refer to these historical currencies: Korean Empire won, 1900–1910 currency in the Korean Empire; Won of the Red Army Command, 1945–1947 currency in northern Korea under the Soviet Civil Administration; South Korean won ...
The history of Korean currency dates back to around the 3rd century BC, when first coins in the form of knife coins, also known in Korean literature as "Myeongdojun(명도전,in chinese mingdaoqian,明刀錢, meaning Ming Knives)" originally belonging to the Chinese state of Yan but also was used in trade with Korean state Gojoseon; which were said to have been circulated. [1]
The euro , which had been the weakest G10 currency through November, began this month with a 0.7% fall on Monday and was last up 0.2% at $1.05185, as France's government heads for collapse over a ...
The local name of the currency is used in this list, with the adjectival form of the country or region. ... Yang (兩) – Korea; Yen (円) Korean yen – Korea ...
Currencies of Korea, including those of pre-division Korea and of South and North Korea. Most currencies in this category are historical; the only money in use on the Korean peninsula today is in the form of North Korean won and South Korean won.
The won is the currency of both North and South Korea. "Won" is a cognate of the Chinese currency unit, the yuan (圓 / 圆 / 元), and the Japanese currency unit, the yen (円; ¥), meaning "round object". The won is subdivided into 100 jeon (Korean: 전; Hanja: 錢; RR: jeon; MR: chŏn). Yang is a former Korean currency.
In Korean versions of Windows, many fonts (including system fonts) display the backslash character as the won sign. This also applies to the directory separator character (for example, C:₩Program Files₩) and the escape character (₩n). The same issue (of dual use of the 0x5C code point) is seen with the yen sign in Japanese versions of ...