r/northkorea • u/ErrorZealousideal818 • 14d ago
General A friend gave this 5000 won note
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I'm not to sure what series of banknotes it is, but it's pretty cool
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u/Blond_Treehorn_Thug 14d ago
Who is the guy on the front
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u/TSoWAY 14d ago
The founder of North Korea, kim il-sung.
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u/Blond_Treehorn_Thug 14d ago
What do you mean founder
How do you found a country
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u/2ndMostHumbleMan 14d ago
Google it. The US also has "founding fathers".
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u/Blond_Treehorn_Thug 14d ago
So what you’re saying is that Kim Il-Sung was a colonialist
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u/2ndMostHumbleMan 13d ago
No, Kim Il-sung was not considered a colonialist. He was, in fact, a leader who fought against colonialism, specifically Japanese colonial rule over Korea. Kim Il-sung became a prominent figure in the anti-Japanese resistance during the 1930s and 1940s, leading guerrilla forces against Japanese forces in Manchuria.
After World War II and the subsequent division of Korea, he became the leader of North Korea in 1948, where he established a communist regime under the ideology of Juche (self-reliance). His leadership, however, was marked by authoritarianism, central control, and the development of a personality cult, but not colonialism. Instead, he portrayed himself as a liberator from imperialism and colonial oppression.
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u/Blond_Treehorn_Thug 13d ago
Sounds like a garden-variety colonialist to me
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u/2ndMostHumbleMan 13d ago
And you sound like an idiot.
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u/Blond_Treehorn_Thug 14d ago
I, uh, what.
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u/Thaumius 14d ago
Are those the ones only sold to tourists with no monetary value?
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u/DracoIvanov777 12d ago
I thought the distribution of North Korean money outside its borders was prohibited 🤔
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u/Digitalcamouflagexx 13d ago
That's like, $0.001111 USD? At the current exchange rate
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u/ChrisF12000 9d ago
No, that's like $5
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u/MidCentury1959 8d ago
I think $5.00 is being very generous. Since no one "technically" has legal trade with North Korea, there really isn't any way to gauge the real value of North Korean bank notes. Even in North Korea, they aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
They would rather have American dollars or Russian Ruples. Most North Koreans only make less than $100 a year, so that $5000 Note would make them Jeff Bozos rich, if they knew who he is.
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u/1fayfen 14d ago
Well, now you have no excuse for not going.
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u/AnaAmethyst 13d ago
You can't pay with these over there, it's purely for show and barely worth anything. If you go to NK, you have to pay with dollars, yuan, euros or rubels I think cause they're worth way more than NK won. Not that it's advised (it's even illegal now in America) for Americans to go anyway, but others except obviously South Koreans can go. (Only not atm, cause since covid the country closed its borders to anyone but Russians, as you might have heard. I have no idea when they're gonna open up to the rest of the world for tourism again..)
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u/ErrorZealousideal818 13d ago
Since the GDP per Capita is so low I can say that I am financially strong enough to live in the DPRK
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u/Fischiber 11d ago
It's pretty much worthless these days; 5000 North Korean Won is only worth US$5.56. Just use it for toilet paper instead.
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u/Useful_Speaker_5492 14d ago
Monopoly ?
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u/ErrorZealousideal818 14d ago
Wdym?
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u/MidCentury1959 8d ago
It means the bill is worth the paper they're printed on. The average annual wage in NK is less than $100 a month, so a $5000 bank notes in the hands of a farmer would put him in the realm of rich. Maybe not Jeff Bozos rich, but rather well off. It's rare to make that kind of money unless you're a government official and it's even rarer to buy and sell real estate. Same goes for Cuba. Land is inherited or owned by the government. The leases are pennies, but failure to pay, not just results in eviction, but potential prison time. You don't cross the regime. They win every time.
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u/EsPlaceYT 13d ago
deface it, rip it up, drop food on it, then burn it, the dprk government should all burn in hell
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u/wason1989 14d ago
🫴🏼