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Also known as KRW, ￦, south korea won
official currency of the Republic of Korea
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The won is the official money used in South Korea for buying goods and paying for services. It matters because it's essential to the country's economy and is what people living in or doing business in South Korea use every day.
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- Currency South Korea.jpg
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- native label
- 대한민국 원
- McCune–Reischauer romanization
- Taehanmin'guk wŏn
- Commons category
- Money of South Korea
- price
- 0.00076349
- unit symbol
- ₩
- start time
- 1947-12-06
- Revised Romanization
- Daehanminguk won
- conversion to standard unit
- 0.00118050792534
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