20th Anniversary Of Chongryon Commemorative Medal.

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It is one of those Korean mysteries.
It is identical (or almost) to the National Flag 3rd Class ribbon, so it may be a case of that these were close to hand rather than creating another bar for these Medals that were to be awarded to Koreans in Japan. The have the national flag colours and 3 stripes - could be argued that they are for the 3 Revolutions. Not all ribbon bars line up directly with the suspending ribbons, just usually.

The two ribboned examples came directly from Japan and the two without the bar came from "outside Japan".

I don't think the Japanese sourced ones were "made complete" to add to the price as they certainly didn't add a premium.

Lots of unanswered questions when it comes to Korea though - even if they're asked a direct question.

"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one but still they come". Here is #5.