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20 000 Won
| Issuer | Bank of Korea |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Korean (Hangul) |
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| Reverse description | A male athlete in full stride is depicted in the center of the field, carrying an Olympic-style torch aloft in his raised right hand. The figure runs before a stylized representation of a modern athletic stadium rendered in low relief in the background. The curved legend '10TH ASIAN GAMES SEOUL 1986' arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination '20000 WON' is inscribed in the lower exergual area. |
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Issued to commemorate the 1986 Seoul Asian Games — the first time South Korea hosted a major multi-sport international event — this piece was part of a broader government program that produced multiple denominations in both silver and gold ahead of an even larger series for the 1988 Seoul Olympics. South Korea's rapid industrialization through the 1970s and early 1980s made hosting both events a deliberate exercise in projecting national prestige, and the commemorative coin program was explicitly tied to that diplomatic strategy.