South Korean Won

South Korean Won

The won (원) (sign: ; code: KRW) is the currency of South Korea. A single won is divided into 100 jeon, the monetary subunit. The jeon is no longer used for everyday transactions, and appears only in foreign exchange rates.

Read more about South Korean Won:  Etymology, Currency Production

Famous quotes containing the words south and/or won:

    My course is a firm assertion and maintenance of the rights of the colored people of the South according to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, coupled with a readiness to recognize all Southern people, without regard to past political conduct, who will now go with me heartily and in good faith in support of these principles.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    Great things are won by great dangers.
    Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)