Catalog
1000 Won
| Issuer | Bank of Korea |
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| Year | 1975 |
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| Printer | Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation, Daejeon, South Korea |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a portrait of Yi Hwang (1501–1570), the eminent Joseon Dynasty Confucian scholar known by his penname Toegye, rendered in a formal intaglio style. The portrait is framed by guilloche underprint patterns, with Korean and hanja inscriptions identifying the issuing authority and denomination arranged across the upper and lower registers. |
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| Obverse lettering | 한국은행권 천 원 한국은행 (Translation: Korean banknote One Thousand Won Bank of Korea) |
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The 1975 series marked a significant moment in South Korean printing history — prior issues of the 1,000 Won had been contracted to foreign security printers, and this note was among the early high-denomination pieces produced entirely domestically by the Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation in Daejeon. That shift was a deliberate policy decision by the Korean government to reduce dependence on overseas printers, particularly in the wake of rapid industrialization during the Third Five-Year Economic Plan.
Watermark-only security at this denomination now looks thin, but it reflected the available domestic production capability at the time.