The Fools Gold

Korea, like the United States has their penny. This time the penny instead of being part of a dollar is actually ten korean dollars (won). From the looks of it, since there are new Korean pennies, the 10 won coin is here to stay. Its comical because the ten won coin is the only gold colored coin in Korea currency. In the United States we have "cents", that is parts of a full dollar. In Korea this is a strange concept seeing as the smallest paper bill in Korean is 1,000 (chun won). They also have 5,000 (oh chun won), 10,000 (mon won), recently introduced 50,000 (oh mon won) and the 100,000 (ship mon won) notes. Counting is complicated and does not follow the western style of thousands but I will have to save this discussion for a later day.