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Both the Southern wonand the Northern wonreplaced the yen at par. The first South Korean won was subdivided into 100 jeon. The South Korean won initially had a fixed exchange rateto the U.S. dollarat a rate of 15 won to 1 dollar. A series of devaluationsfollowed, the later ones, in part, due to the Korean War(1950–53).
The nominal U.S. dollar GDP of ASEAN fell by $9.2 billion in 1997 and $218.2 billion (31.7%) in 1998. In South Korea, the $170.9 billion fall in 1998 was equal to 33.1% of the 1997 GDP. [82] Many businesses collapsed, and as a consequence, millions of people fell below the poverty line in 1997–1998.
The United States dollar ( symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.
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e. The Millennium Prize Problems are seven well-known complex mathematical problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000. The Clay Institute has pledged a US$ 1 million prize for the first correct solution to each problem. The Clay Mathematics Institute officially designated the title Millennium Problem for the seven unsolved ...
At the time of its introduction in 1945 the won was pegged to the Japanese yen at a rate of 1 won = 1 yen. In October of the same year the anchor currency was changed to the US dollar at a rate of 15 won = 1 dollar. Toward the end of the Korean War the won was devalued at 6000 won = 1 dollar. [ 1] Following that the hwan was introduced as the ...