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50 000 Won IUCN Jeju
| Issuer | Bank of Korea |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) |
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| Obverse lettering | nature IUCN WORLD CONSERVATION CONGRESS Jeju 2012 THE BANK OF KOREA · 50000WON |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents an intricate allegorical composition celebrating global biodiversity and nature conservation. In the upper arc, the Korean Hangul legend '2012 세계자연보전총회 제주' (2012 IUCN World Conservation Congress, Jeju) is inscribed. The central field depicts a rich assembly of wildlife including a polar bear standing on an ice floe at right, a flamingo and penguin in the center amid an arctic seascape with icebergs, a sea turtle at lower left, a seal at the bottom center, and several birds perched among flowering vines and foliage at upper left. A circular globe motif incorporating a whale's tail and ocean wave occupies the center of the composition. Along the lower arc, the inscription '한국은행 · 2012 · 오만원' (Bank of Korea · 2012 · Fifty Thousand Won) appears in Hangul. |
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Issued as part of the Bank of Korea's conservation series tied to the 2012 IUCN World Conservation Congress, held in Jeju that September — the first time the congress convened in Asia. The IUCN gathering brought together over 10,000 delegates from more than 160 countries to address species protection policy, giving South Korea a diplomatic incentive to produce commemorative issues aligned with the event's agenda.