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The Bank of Korea supplies liquidity to the economy by issuing banknotes and coins

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Security features

10,000 won obverse
  • Hologram
  • See-through Register
  • Watermark Bar
  • Micro Lettering
  • Micro Lettering
  • Security Thread
  • Watermark
  • SPAS
  • Intaglio Latent Image
10,000 won Reverse
  • Micro Lettering
  • Micro Lettering
  • See-through Register
  • Color-shifting Ink

(Reference) Explanation of security features of new 10,000 won note.

Changing designs by different angles
Hologram (OVD : Optically Variable Device)

Changing designs by different angles
By different angles, ‘map of the Korea’, ‘face value number & Taegeuk (the Great Absolute)’, and ‘Four signs of divination’ can be seen by turns on the thin special film

Color Shifting Ink
Color Shifting Ink

Because of special ink, which is mixed with different material having different reflection to the light, the color of face value number changes gold to green.

Intaglio Latent Image
Intaglio Latent Image

From the position of eyes, if we look askance at the note, ‘WON’ appears, thanks to a special intaglio printing method.

Security Thread
Security Thread

Held up to the light, the banknote shows microletters within a thin fluorescent plastic film.

See-through Register
See-through Register

The dividing shape of Taegeuk is printed on the both sides of the note at the exactly matching spot. Holding the note up to the light, the combining shape on front and reverse will make a completed Taegeuk.

Micro Lettering

Difficult to see with the naked eye, but can be discerved with a magnifier. It is appeared as a line or dotted line when forged by color printer or color copier.

Micro Lettering
Watermark
Watermark

Held up to the light, a hidden reverse image portrait appears in the non-image space on the left side of the obverse, thanks to the variation in thickness within each note.

SPAS : Special Press and Soldering
SPAS : Special Press and Soldering

Without holding the note up to the light, we can easily observe the hidden face value number with the naked eye, thanks to enlarged differences in thickness between parts of each note.

Watermark Bar
Watermark Bar

Held up to the light, three horizontal dark bars and two bright bars appear in turn, thanks to the variation in thickness within each note.

Intaglio Printing

A special method putting ink into the concave and printing as convex. The slightly raised figures can be felt.

Intaglio Printing
Fluorescent Security Fiber
Fluorescent Security Fiber

The special fluorescent fiber is inserted into the note. Using ultraviolet fluorescent light, it is possible to see various scattering fluorescent fiber on the note

Endless Pattern
Endless Pattern

A printing method inter-linking the pattern between top and bottom, right and left around the edge of the note.

Rainbow Printing
Rainbow Printing

A printing method whereby colors give a rainbow-like effect.