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10 000 Won Archery
| Issuer | Bank of Korea |
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| Year | 1987-1988 |
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| Thickness | 3 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a female archer in traditional Korean costume, shown in dynamic three-quarter profile drawing a recurve bow with both arms fully extended in the act of release. The figure is rendered in high relief with careful attention to detail in the folds of her garments and the tension of the bowstring. In the upper arc of the legend field, the inscription 'XXIV OLYMPIAD SEOUL 1988' is incused in Latin capitals. To the lower left, the official emblem of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games — comprising the Samtaeguk motif above the Olympic rings — is prominently displayed. The denomination '10000 WON' is inscribed along the lower rim in Latin characters. |
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| Reverse lettering | XXIV OLYMPIAD SEOUL 1988 10000 WON |
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Issued to commemorate the 1988 Seoul Olympics, this was part of South Korea's ambitious multi-coin commemorative program — one of the largest Olympic coin programs any host nation had undertaken at that point. Korea used the series aggressively as both a revenue instrument and an international prestige exercise, with coins sold through foreign distributors well before the Games opened.
Archery holds particular national significance in Korea; the country's dominance in the sport at Seoul was not coincidental but the product of decades of systematic state-backed athletic development.