100 Won 100th Anni. of Korean National Association

The Korean National Association — known in Korean as the Kungminhoe — was founded in San Francisco in 1909, emerging from the Korean immigrant community in Hawaii and California as an organized resistance body following Japan's forced protectorate over Korea in 1905. It functioned as a de facto government-in-exile for overseas Koreans, collecting taxes from members and funding independence agitation. The centennial would have fallen in 2009, making this 2017 issue eight years late — a timing anomaly with no clean explanation in the public record.