| Gold-collecting campaign | |
 Korean citizens participating in the gold-collecting campaign. (English translation of the text on the screen: A gold gathering campaign showing the will of the Korean people to overcome the IMF) | |
| Korean name | |
|---|---|
| Hangul | 금 모으기 운동 |
| Hanja | 金 모으기 運動 |
| Revised Romanization | geum moeugi undong |
| McCune–Reischauer | kŭm moŭgi undong |
| The gold collecting campaign, from January to April 1998 | |
In South Korea, the gold-collecting campaign was a national sacrificial movement in early 1998 to repay its debt to the International Monetary Fund. At the time, South Korea had about $304 billion in foreign-exchange debt. The campaign, involving about 3.51 million people nationwide, collected about 227 tons of gold[1] worth about $2.13 billion.[2]
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- ^ "[위크엔드] 換亂극복 '눈물의 금모으기'…한국은 울고, 세계는 감동했다" (in Korean). 2013-05-03. Retrieved 2018-06-25.