Talk:North Korean won

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Am curious - I have seen eBay auctions state that it's illegal to take the currency out of the country - can anybody confirm this, and if true, perhaps it should be added to the article? - User:Junglizt1210 - 16:40 UTC, April 1st, 2006.

As with the article about the South Korean won, I believe the pronunciation of "won" is /wɑn/ as opposed to the past tense of "to win".

/wɑn/ is the common pronunciation in English, but not in Korean. In Korean, it is, in fact, /wʌn/. /wɑn/ is a hypercorrection. Nik42 02:20, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Coins?

Do the coins actually circulate? The article states that the won's value is believed to be about that of the South Korean won, which would indicate that even 1 won would be nearly worthless. In addition, the fact that there's the largest bill is 500,000 times the value of the smallest coin makes the worth of that coin rather questionable, unless the 5,000-won bill is ridiculously high-value Nik42 02:20, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Anything about North Korea is a myth. But I can tell you this: US$12.5 is a reasonable price on the collector's market for a 5000 North Korean won. so that means the face value of 5000 won is probably $6, which translates to 833 won per USD. I can't really give a definitive answer, but I would't be surprised if 1 won coin (= 0.1 US cent) is still used. --Chochopk 03:04, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Correction: 10000 South Korean won is sold for $16 by the same vendor, and 5000 won for $10, so by linear interpolation, 5000 N. won is appoximately 7083 S won. And because the face value-collector price relationship is never linear (concave actually), and NK won is supposedly rarer, so the face value of 5000 N. won would be lower than 7083 S. won, which makes it right to say that 1 NK won is about 1 SK won. Nevertheless, 1 N. won is still approx. 0.1 US cent. --Chochopk 04:00, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

1 won is, according to the article, about 0.46 Euro cent. 1 chon would, therefore, be about 0.0046 Euro cent. It's hinging on the point where the coin is worth more as raw metal than as currency (see Zimbabwe dollar). JIP | Talk 18:28, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pictures

How come there aren't any pictures of the bills? Jorobeq 06:45, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Copy right laws are hard to find. If there are acceptable tags (or if you create one, I will be happy to upload) --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 06:22, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

I'll try because I have some NK bills of my own i wanted to upload Jorobeq 07:17, 11 September 2006 (UTC)