[Korean won (loan translation of Japanese en, round coin, yen, using the Korean pronunciation of the Chinese character with which the Japanese word is written; see yen2), from Early Middle Chinese wian, round.]
[before 900; Middle English; Old English wunian, c. Old Saxon wonōn, Old High German wonēn, Old Norse una to dwell, be content, Gothic *wunan, in unwunands distressed]
won3
(wɒn)
n., pl. won.
the basic monetary unit of North Korea and South Korea.
[1915–20; < Korean wǒn < Middle Chinese, = Chinese yuányuan]
His group allegedly amassed large sums of money amounting to hundreds of millions of Korean won, which the victims deposited to their bank accounts, by converting it to game money.
The South Korean tech company predicted an operating profit of 6.6 million Korean won ($5.6 billion) for the quarter ended in June, down $12.7 billion from last year.
Merlin, which operates the London Eye, said the deal with the Gangwon Provincial Government is valued at 290 billion Korean Won ($259.26 million) and Legoland Korea would be open by 2022.
For example, the high-quality and comfortable teddy bear only sells for 19,900 Korean won, which is usually priced at nearly 80,000 Korean won of other similar competitors.
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