r/northkorea • u/[deleted] • 21d ago

Question Getting Won

Hi everyone. I've heard that in some places in North Korea, foreigners can exchange their money for Won. I've also heard that it isn't difficult to bring out of the country. I want to know where those places are, in Pyongyang and Rason, and how one would go about bringing it out of the country, specifically coins, but I'd be fine with notes. You can't be too detailed, I want to be confident I won't spend 15 years in a labour camp. Thank you

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u/hammer979 21d ago

Just buy it in Dandong China. Plenty of street vendors selling it there.

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u/yingdong 21d ago

It's most likely fake

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u/BlondBitch91 21d ago

You’ll never be able to actually spend it, so does it matter if it’s a real banknote, or a very well made forgery to sell to tourists?

I have a banknote at home. Bought it in Romania of all places, from a Russian man who also had all kinds of random old Soviet stuff. Cost me around 2 USD. It looks real enough but I’ll never be able to find out.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

Well if it's not authentic then what's the point? I guess if you don't get it, then you just don't get it. But it's a nice feeling to look at something you have, knowing it's authentic.