Sentence examples for South Korean won from high-quality English sources.

• Nor in all likelihood are several other South-East Asian currencies and perhaps the South Korean won.

• In the first six months, the value of the Indonesian rupiah was down by 80 percent, the Thai baht by more than 50 percent, the South Korean won by nearly 50 percent, and the Malaysian ringgit by 45 percent.

• The strong yen is crippling exports: the currency has gained 67% against sterling in the past year, and almost 75% against the South Korean won.

• THE strength of the yen, especially against the South Korean won, has helped spatter Japanese electronics companies with red ink in recent years.

• The Chinese currency, along with those which track it, such as the Taiwanese dollar or the South Korean won, would suffer, says Claire Huang of Amundi, an asset manager.

• The most undervalued are the yuan, the yen, the Indian rupee and the Taiwan and Singapore dollars; the least undervalued are the ringgit, the Hong Kong dollar and the South Korean won.

• Certainly, China's rise up the production chain has been swift and, in some cases, ferocious; and the South Korean won has been the strongest of the region's currencies since Asian growth took off earlier this decade, even if it has softened somewhat this year.

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  That explanation looked a lot less convincing after the death of Kim Jong Il in December, when the KOSPI 200 index of leading shares and the won, the South Korean currency, both quickly shrugged off the news.

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  The women, represented by a group called Solidarity for Young Skaters (SYS), made their allegations public in a news conference held at South Korea's parliament on Monday alongside a South Korean lawmaker Sohn Hye-won who has also taken up this cause.

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  The sums awarded in the South Korean rulings look affordable, at between 80m and 150m won ($71,000-133,000) per plaintiff.

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  Now Mr Choi is trying to pep up the economy further by getting South Korean firms to spend more on wages and dividends.

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  Last August a South Korean pastor was indicted for misappropriating 2.4 billion Korean won ($2.3m) that the faithful had handed over to set up a Christian bank.

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  Bong won all four awards as writer, director, and producer on the film and the best original screenplay award was the first Oscar any South Korean film has ever won.

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  As a young musician, Ten visited South Korea for the first time as part of the choir that won the World Choir Games in Busan in 2002.

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  The spy agency told lawmakers that five North Korean officials in the department of recently purged state security chief Kim Won-hong were executed by anti-aircraft guns because of the false reports to Kim, South Korean lawmaker Lee Cheol Woo said.

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  The families of two victims of North Korean torture — the American college student Otto Warmbier and a South Korean minister, the Rev.

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  Tensions between North and South Korea had often been high since the Korean War.

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  South Korean tech giant Samsung won a contract to manufacture Qualcomm's premium 5G modem, according to Reuters.

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  On February 4th NHN announced record sales and profits for 2008, becoming the first South Korean internet company to record sales of more than 1 trillion won ($660m).

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  Canadian short track speed skater Kim Boutin has been inundated with abuse and threats from angry South Korean fans after she won bronze in the women’s 500-metre final on Tuesday.