Korean 2 Mun Crafted Into A Shuttlecock...

I have recently come back from an overseas mission to South Korea.
Here I had the opportunity to meet the locals informally.
I carried with me the 2 Mun Korean coin as a "discussion piece". I have found it a great idea to take a coin from the visited country along for that purpose.

One of the senior Korean associates showed me something from the time of his youth.
In those days children amused themselves by wrapping a coin in a piece of tissue paper to produce a shuttlecock for play.

I have attached a picture collage showing how the shuttlecock is made. A chopstick is needed to pierce through the tissue paper and permit the loose ends of the paper to be fed through the central hole. This in order to make the tail of the shuttlecock.
In strong winds the "feather strips" were partly rolled up to reduce the wind resistance.

I find it fascinating to see how ordinary folk used coins in unusual ways to colour their life so long ago.

Squire