50 000 Won IUCN Jeju

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.