5만원권 도입 10년...지폐 비중의 84.6% 차지<br /><br />Ten years have passed since South Korea first distributed its 50-thousand won bills, but they now account for almost 85 percent of the value of all banknotes in circulation in the country.<br />The Bank of Korea said last month that the bills made roughly 37 percent of all bills, and that they had a combined value of over 83 billion U.S. dollars.<br />South Korea began printing the largest denomination bill, worth some 42 dollars, 50 cents each, in June 2009. <br />Nearly four billion of them have been printed over the past ten years. <br />
