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:
“You can forget what I said about buying the gun. You’re a tenderfoot. Liberty Valance’s the toughest man south of the Picket Wire—next to me.”
—Willis Goldbeck (1900–1979)
“Great things are won by great dangers.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)