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500 Won 41st World Table Tennis Championships
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) |
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| Obverse script | Hangul |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The 41st World Table Tennis Championships were held in Chiba, Japan in 1991 — a tournament made politically extraordinary when North and South Korean players competed together as a unified Korean team for the first time. That joint team, fielded under the name "Korea," defeated China in the women's team final, ending China's decade-long dominance of the event.
Pyongyang issued several commemorative silver pieces tied to the championships, and KM#45 belongs to that broader program. The unified team's victory was one of the few moments of inter-Korean cooperation celebrated simultaneously by both governments during the Cold War's dying months.