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3 unusual facts about South Korean won


Asiana Airlines Flight 991

According to Asiana, the crash of Flight 991 led to damages to the airline of about $190 million U.S. (200.4 billion won).

Kaoklai Kaennorsing

Kaoklai won the evenly fought battle in the extra round, collected 60 million and advanced to K-1 World GP 2004 Final Elimination, held in Nippon Budokan Arena, Tokyo, Japan .

Unbalance Unbalance

Jin-Ho Myung returns a wallet and cell phone to a beautiful young woman (Hae-Young Nah) in a book shop, little realizing that she would find out that he has already (rather presumptuously) taken 7000 won to buy a book he really wanted.


Angang Sewage Disposal Plant

It began operating in April, 2005 by the co-investment of the Government of North Gyeongsang and Gyeongju City with a fund of 44,300,000,000 won to install the facilities to prevent the pollution of Hyeongsan River which is a main water source for Gyeongju and Pohang residents.

KS X 1001

Not all of them encode the standard the same way, like replacing the typical backslash at byte 0x5C with the won currency sign ().


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