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1000 Won
| Issuer | Bank of Korea |
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| Year | 1983 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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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 pen name Toegye, rendered in intaglio against a fine guilloche underprint. Inscriptions in Hangul appear above and to the right of the portrait, identifying the issuing authority and denomination. A single raised coloured tactile dot for the visually impaired is positioned at the lower left of the note. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a landscape vignette of Dosan Seowon, the Confucian academy situated in Andong, whose construction was initiated by Yi Hwang in 1549 and formally established in 1574. The complex is rendered in fine line engraving set within a decorative guilloche border, conveying the architectural character of the traditional Korean seowon. Denomination and issuing authority inscriptions appear in Latin script. |
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This issue entered circulation as South Korea's economy was accelerating through one of its steepest growth decades, though the 1,000 won note itself was hardly a prestige denomination — it was working currency, handled hard and retired fast. The Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation had taken over domestic production from foreign printers by this period, part of a broader push toward self-sufficient security printing infrastructure that began in the 1970s.
The watermark remains the sole listed security feature, which reflects the denomination's place in the hierarchy — higher values in the same era carried more elaborate protection.