South Korea: currency

By New Statesman Published 01 March 2012

 

 

The currency is the South Korean won. The graph above shows the exchange rate, from local currency to US dollar, from 1950 to 2007 (converted to local currency as of 2005). It was pegged to the US dollar until 1980 at five different levels:

1962 125
1964 255
1972 400
1974 480
1980 580

 

 
 

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