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Originally Posted by bqcoins  That's pretty cool there. I remember my time in SK and you couldn't find a 1 or 5 won piece anywhere except maybe a coin shop and I didn't speak enough korean to get directions to one. |
I was stationed there in 2000 and I don't recall seeing anything smaller than a 10 won coin in circulation (and even then pretty rarely... found a few 50 won coins, but it was pretty uncommon to see anything smaller than 100 won anymore). I have a few 1 and 5 won coins from the 70's and early 80's that my dad got when he was on a short duty assignment there about 1984 or so.
When I was there the exchange rate was about 1200 won to the US dollar. Believe it's close to 1000 now (more from the dollar weakening than the won strengthening, but a little bit of both.)
Wish I saved some paper money... I have tons of coins from there though.
