Catalog
500 Won
| Issuer | Bank of Korea |
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| Year | 1966-1975 |
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| Value | 500 Won |
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| Obverse lettering | 한국은행권 오백원 한국은행 한국조폐공사 제조 (Translation: Bank of Korea note / Five Hundred Won / Bank of Korea / Manufactured by Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation) |
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| Reverse lettering | THE BANK OF KOREA 오백 500 WON (Translation: Five Hundred Won) |
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South Korea's early won series of the 1960s was printed domestically at a time when many developing economies still sent their security printing abroad. The Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation handling this 500 Won issue was a deliberate policy choice — the Park Chung-hee government treated self-sufficient currency production as an industrial and security priority, part of the same logic driving the Five-Year Plans.
A print run of just over 12 million across a nine-year window is modest, and attrition from circulation in a rapidly industrializing economy was high. Fine or better examples are harder to source than the numbers suggest.