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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.
US Dollar (37) Euro (28) Composite (8) Other (9) No separate legal tender (16) Ecuador El Salvador Marshall Islands Micronesia Palau Panama Timor-Leste Andorra Monaco San Marino Vatican City Kosovo Montenegro Kiribati Nauru Tuvalu; Currency board (11) Djibouti Hong Kong ; ECCU Antigua and Barbuda Dominica
The pot increases to 20.1 billion Korean won ($13.6 million dollars) after the six-legged race in episode 5. Before the series cuts to credits in the season 2 finale , the pot stands at 35.6 ...
US dollar This infobox shows the latest status before this currency was rendered obsolete. The won ( Korean : 원 ) was the first South Korean currency and was in use from August 15, 1945, to February 15, 1953.
Unofficial currency substitution or de facto currency substitution is the most common type of currency substitution. Unofficial currency substitution occurs when residents of a country choose to hold a significant share of their financial assets in foreign currency, even though the foreign currency is not legal tender there. [ 8 ]
The South Korean currency fell to as low as 1,443.40 won per dollar, the lowest since October 2022. It was last down 1.9% at 1,430.72.
Present currency ISO 4217 code Country or dependency ... South Korean won [75] KRW ... US Dollar [84] USD
Like South Korean won, this currency unit was also issued in banknotes initially but in 1959, coins denominated in hwan were also issued and were the first circulating coins in South Korea. Hwan had a peg with the US dollar but with time it also got devaluated. This was the reason for the reintroduction of won in 1962 as the official currency unit.