Bank of Korea (1909–1950)

Bank of Chōsen
Bank of Chōsen
	Head office in Seoul
Japanese name
Kanji	朝鮮銀行
Romanization
Transcriptions
Romanization	Chōsen Ginkō
Korean name
Hangul	조선은행
Hanja	朝鮮銀行
Revised Romanization
Transcriptions
Revised Romanization	Joseon eunhaeng
McCune–Reischauer	Chosǒn ǔnhaeng

The Bank of Chōsen (Japanese: 朝鮮銀行) or Bank of Joseon (Korean: 조선은행) was the central bank of Colonial Korea, and later of South Korea. The bank issued the Korean yen from 1910 to 1945 and the won from 1945 to 1950.

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