Number of banknotes: 1

Origin: Asia 

Denomination: 50 Won

Currency: Third Won

Type: Banknotes

Year: 2002 (2009)

Composition: Paper

Weight: 1 g.

Shape: Rectangular

Size: 145 × 65 mm

Catalog numbers: P60

Obverse: The intellectual, laborer, and farmer, representative of the Workers’ Party of Korea. North Korea enhances the iconic ‘hammer and sickle’ (laborers and farmers) of Soviet symbolism by adding a calligraphy brush to depict the intellectuals. The design has been drafted as the emblem of the Workers’ Party of Korea, and you’ll find a monument at the base of the Juche Tower in Pyongyang with each representative holding up their symbols of the party (brush, hammer, sickle). The background of this note is the Juche flame atop the Juche Tower.

Reverse: Monument to Party Founding. One of Pyongyang’s most recognizable monuments. This monument is rich in symbolism, unveiled in 1995 at exactly 50 meters high to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea. The belt itself is said to be made up of 216 blocks with a diameter of 42 meters, representing General Kim Jong Il’s birthday of February 16, 1942. The text states: ‘Long live the leader and organiser of the victories of the people of Korea, the Worker’s Party of Korea!’

🧑People: Young professionals, and Torch of Juche Ideology Tower in Pyongyang

⛩ Monuments: The Monument to the Founding of the Korean Workers’ Party