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1 Won Arirang Mass Games
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Value | 1 Won |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the state emblem of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea prominently at center, depicting a hydroelectric power station and a radiating red star above, flanked by sheaves of rice bound with a ribbon inscribed with the state name in Hangul. The Hangul legend 조선민주주의인민공화국중앙은행, meaning 'Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea', arcs around the upper periphery. The date 2002 appears to the lower left of the emblem, while the Latin legend DPR KOREA is inscribed horizontally below, and the denomination 1 원 (1 Won) is prominently displayed in the lower field. |
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| Obverse lettering | 조선민주주의인민공화국중앙은행 2002 DPR KOREA 1 원 (Translation: Central Bank of Democratic People`s Republic of Korea, 1 Won) |
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North Korea's Arirang Mass Games were revived in 2002 after a decade-long hiatus, relaunched as a direct response to the famine years of the mid-1990s — a calculated assertion of collective strength at a moment when the state's authority over daily life had visibly fracked. The 2002 performance involved an estimated 100,000 participants and was explicitly tied to Kim Il-sung's 90th birth anniversary commemorations.
Aluminum collector issues from the DPRK in this period were produced in small quantities for the hard-currency tourist trade, not domestic circulation. Most North Koreans never handled foreign-facing commemoratives at all.