In 2018, the Central Bank of DPR Korea issued a silver commemorative coin to mark the 95th Anniversary of the “250-mile Journey for Learning”.
Carved on the central front of the coin are the images of the route of the “250-mile Journey for Learning” with names of different passing places, the starting point “Badaogou”(8도구), the destination “Mangyongdae”(만경대), and the related badge of “250-mile Journey for Learning”. On the upper part of the front are letters reading “95th Anniversary of the 250-mile Journey for Learning”(《배움의 천리길》95돐 기념) and the letters reading “Juche 12 (1923) – Juche 107 (2018)”(주체12(1923)-주체107(2018)). There are 95 dots surrounding.
On the central back of the coin is the national emblem of the DPRK. Seen in the upper part of the back are the letters “The Central Bank of the DPRK” (조선민주주의인민공화국중앙은행) and in its lower part are the degree of purity, weight, face value and minting year.
The face value of the silver coin is 20 won.
The size of the silver coin is 40 mm in diameter and 3 mm in thickness.
The silver coin contains 31g of 999 silver.
Its mintage is 500 pieces.
Here is an introduction to “250-mile Journey for Learning”,
250-mile Journey for Learning Made by President Kim Il Sung in His Teens
Keeping deep in mind the intention of his father that a man born in Korea must know Korea, the President made the 250-mile journey alone from Badaogou of China to his birthplace Mangyongdae of Korea at the age of 11.
One day when the President was nearing his graduation from Badaogou Primary School, his farther Kim Hyong Jik told him that it would be good to go to the homeland and continue to study there.
With a firm will to follow his father’s intention, the President embarked on the 250-mile journey for learning on March 16, 1923.
The journey was difficult one beyond thought. Most of its course was steep and craggy mountains where no man lives and beasts are prowling after their prey even in full daylight.
During the journey, he witnessed miserable fate of the Korean people groaning under the Japanese imperialists’ colonial rule.
Recalling those days, he wrote in his reminiscences “With the Century”:
The profound meaning of what my father had said to me on my departure about learning about Korea came home to me. As I remembered his instructions, I closely studied my unfortunate homeland.
The 250-mile journey was, for me, a journey of learning about my homeland and my fellow countrymen.
Through the journey, the President made a firm resolve to rescue the plundered and oppressed Korean people by smashing the Japanese imperialists and liberating the country from them.
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