Korea Minting and Security

Security (finance)

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 Printing Corporation

Corporation

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(KOMSCO, 한국조폐공사) is a government-owned corporation which is responsible to print and mint

Mint (coin)

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 the banknotes and coins

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 and other government

Government

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 document

Document

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s. Its headquarters are located in Daejeon, South Korea. KOMSCO mints coins for other currencies such as the Israeli new sheqel

Israeli new sheqel

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Products

The main job of KOMSCO is printing

Printing

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 and minting the South Korean currency

Currency

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. Currently the 1000, 5000, 10000, 50000 KRW banknotes and the 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500 KRW coins are minted and printed by the currency plant of KOMSCO. Also, they produce all South Korean cheque

Cheque

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, stamps, and passport

Passport

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