A staffer counts U.S. dollars at Hana Bank's headquarters in Jung District on Dec. 3. Korea's foreign exchange reserves increased by $9.87 billion in November, the highest monthly increase in 10 years. [YONHAP]
Korea’s currency hit a 30-month high against the U.S. dollar Thursday as investors' interest in safe-haven assets dwindled and expectations rose for vaccine development and further fiscal stimulus in the United States.
Korea’s won closed at 1, 097 won against the greenback Thursday, going below the 1, 100-won level for the first time in two and a half years. The currency appreciated by 3.8 won, or 0.34 percent, against the U.S. dollar compared to the previous trading day.
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The last time the won traded below 1, 100 won was on June 15, 2018, when it closed at 1, 097.7 won against the U.S. dollar.
The surge in the won is seen to have been fueled by optimism over vaccines for Covid-19 and additional stimulus in the United States.
Mixed elements both from Korea and overseas contributed to the depreciation of the U.S. dollar against the Korean won, said Kwon Ah-min, an analyst from NH Investment & Securities.
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Korea's economy has shown solid improvement, attracting foreign investment and vaccine development and the prospect of a fiscal package in the United States have accelerated the depreciation's speed from November.
Ever since Pfizer and BioNTech announced an effective vaccine for the coronavirus in early November, the value of the U.S. dollar has been teetering. The U.S. dollar index, which measures the value of the greenback against a basket of foreign currencies, tumbled to 91.415 as of Dec. 2, dropping by 5.3 percent compared to the first week of November.
The weakness of the U.S. dollar stands in contrast to March, when people around the world couldn’t get enough of the currency after Covid-19 was declared a pandemic.
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“There’s more pressure on the Korean won to appreciate against the greenback amid weak dollar trends, ” said Jeon Seung-ji, an analyst at Samsung Securities.
Korea’s foreign exchange reserves increased by $9.87 billion in November as other currencies appreciated against the U.S. dollar, the Bank of Korea said Thursday.
It was the biggest monthly increase in a decade. The outstanding amount of foreign exchange reserves now stands at $436.3 billion as of the end of November.
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In October, Korea took the ninth spot in terms of foreign exchange holdings. China came in first followed by Japan and Switzerland.
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Related Stories Bearishness Ups and downs Foreign currency reserves hit another monthly record Foreigners remained net sellers in February Yoon and Biden may discuss currency swap at UN next weekSo, of all the mysteries in Squid Game, without question, the one thing I think that every American watching the show Googled was how much the game’s prize pool, 45.6 billion won, 100 million won for every participant, was in US dollars.
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So, it’s still a lot of money to win in the end if you’re the last one standing, and it would have been a good bit of money distributed to the families of those who died if it was turned down. But many of the contestants had billions of won in debt, so it wouldn’t have covered all of that, it seems.
$45 billion USD? That would have been a prize so large it wouldn’t have made a lot of sense in context. Elon Musk just made headlines as having his fortune eclipse $200 billion, only the second person ever to do that besides Jeff Bezos, so you’d be a quarter of the way there with 45 billion USD. $38 million is probably enough to buy one of Jeff Bezos’s yachts.
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Been the pool for past games, so the game is giving away $38 million a year to its winners (or losers), while somehow financing the costs of the game itself. We learned from Squid Game that a bunch of rich men (many westerners included) sit around betting millions on the game, but we still don’t really know how the game started, or who ultimately is behind it. We know who through
Year’s game in Korea with all the children’s games, but the implication was that it’s not necessarily normally like that, and now that character is dead (no spoilers as to who it was).
Most popular ever, so a season 2 seems likely, even if the writer/director does not have any ideas yet, which he says he doesn’t. But we’ll assume the prize pool may remain the same, unless they increase the number of contestants. Though at that point, things may get a little…overcrowded. We’ll see how it works out in a year, two years? Who knows.This article is about the official currcy of South Korea. For the official currcy of North Korea (ISO 4217 code KPW), see North Korean won.
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The South Korean won (Symbol: ₩; Code: KRW; Korean: 대한민국 원) is the official currcy of South Korea. A single won is divided into 100 jeon, the monetary subunit. The jeon is no longer used for everyday transactions, and it appears only in foreign exchange rates. The currcy is issued by the Bank of Korea, based in the capital city of Seoul.
The old won was a cognate of the Chinese yuan and Japanese y, which were both derived from the Spanish-American silver dollar. It is derived from the hanja 圓 (원 , won), meaning round, which describes the shape of the silver dollar.
The won was subdivided into 100 jeon (Korean: 전 ; Hanja: 錢 ; RR: jeon; MR: chŏn), itself a cognate of the Chinese unit of weight mace and synonymous with money in geral. The currt won (1962 to prest) is writt in hangul only and does not officially have any hanja associated with it.
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The Korean won, Chinese yuan and Japanese y were all derived from the Spanish-American silver dollar, a coin widely used for international trade betwe Asia and the Americas from the 16th to 19th cturies.
During the colonial era under the Japanese (1910–45), the won was replaced by the Korean y which was at par with the Japanese Y.
After World War II ded in 1945, Korea was divided, resulting in two separate currcies, both called won, for the South and the North. Both the Southern won and the Northern won replaced the y at par. The first South Korean won was subdivided into 100 jeon.
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The South Korean won initially had a fixed exchange rate to the U.S. dollar at a rate of 15 won to 1 dollar. A series of devaluations followed, the later ones, in part, due to the Korean War (1950–53). The pegs were:
The first South Korean won was replaced by the hwan on February 15, 1953, at a rate of 1 hwan = 100 won.
In 1946, the Bank of Joseon introduced 10 and 100 won notes. These were followed in 1949 by 5 and 1, 000 won notes.
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And assumed the duties of Bank of Joseon. Notes were introduced (some dated 1949) in dominations of 5, 10 and 50 jeon, and 100 and 1, 000 won. The 500 won notes were introduced in 1952. In 1953, a series of banknotes was issued which, although it gave the dominations in glish in won, were, in fact, the first issues of the hwan.
The won was reintroduced on June 10, 1962, at a rate of 1 won = 10 hwan. It became the sole legal tder on March 22, 1975, with the withdrawal of the last circulating hwan coins. Its ISO 4217 code is KRW. At the reintroduction of the won in 1962, its value was pegged at 125 won = US$1. The following pegs operated betwe 1962 and 1980:
On February 27, 1980, efforts were initiated to lead to a floating exchange rate. The won was finally allowed to float on December 24, 1997, wh an agreemt was signed with the International Monetary Fund.
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Until 1966, 10 and 50 hwan coins, revalued as 1 and 5 won, were the only coins in circulation. New coins, dominated in won, were introduced by the Bank of Korea on August 16, 1966, in dominations of 1, 5 and 10 won, with the 1 won struck in brass and the 5 and 10 won in bronze. These were the first South Korean coins to display the date in the common era, earlier coins having used the Korean caldar. The 10 and 50 hwan coins were demonetized on March 22, 1975.
In 1968, as the intrinsic value of the brass 1 won coin far surpassed its face value, new aluminium 1 won coins were issued to replace them. As an attempt to further reduce currcy production costs, new 5 and 10
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