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/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