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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.
The rupiah (symbol: Rp; currency code: IDR) is the official currency of Indonesia, issued and controlled by Bank Indonesia. Its name is derived from the Sanskrit word for silver, rupyakam (रूप्यकम्). [4] Sometimes, Indonesians also informally use the word perak ("silver" in Indonesian) in referring to rupiah in coins.
This infobox shows the latest status before this currency was rendered obsolete. The Korean won (/ wɒn / won[1] Korean: 원; Hanja: 圓, Korean pronunciation: [wʌn]) or Korean Empire won (대한제국 원), was the official currency of the Korean Empire between 1900 and 1910. It was subdivided into 100 jeon (/ dʒʌn / jun; [2] 전; 錢 ...
Chosŏn-inmin wŏn. The Korean People's won, more commonly known as the North Korean won (Symbol: ₩; Code: KPW; Korean: 조선 원) and sometimes known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea won (Korean: 조선민주주의인민공화국 원), is the official currency of North Korea. It is subdivided into 100 chon. The currency is ...
In Microsoft Windows code page 949, the position 0x5C is also used for the won sign. [1] 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).
Hari Won was born in Seoul, South Korea.Her father is from Vietnam and her mother is South Korean.Her father came to South Korea in 70s and met her mother there. Their marriage wasn't accepted by her mother's family as her father wasn't wealthy as well as being of non-Korean descent.
Taejong (Korean: 태종; Hanja: 太宗; 16 May 1367 – 10 May 1422), [i][ii] personal name Yi Pang-wŏn (이방원; 李芳遠), was the third monarch of the Joseon dynasty of Korea and the father of Sejong the Great. [1] He was the fifth son of King Taejo, the founder of the dynasty. Before ascending to the throne, he was known as Prince ...
500 won coin (right), next to a Japanese 500 yen coin (left). In Japan in the late 1990s, South Korean 500 won coins were similar to Japanese 500 yen coins, shape, size, material, and weight (composition of the Japanese 500 yen coin: Cupronickel (75% copper, 25% nickel), weight: 7.20g, diameter: 26.5mm) and were used for vending machines. The ...