It became beginning of the culture of telephone card to publish and support public telephone card for the communication convenience of official players of the inside and outside of the country starting the Asia contest in 1986.
The used telephone card when they are Asia contest in 1986 and seoul Olymphic contest in 1988 imported all production card and used.
The ordinary card used production of the inside of the korea from 1989.
The custom order (advertisement, commemoration, campain) card is published CATV publicity card in korea synthesis wire broadcasting exam enterprise group as the the card of the beginning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The France published the public telephone card of the first of the world for burglarproof of coin in 1976 and the first of the world of the custom order card(advertisement, for publicity) is published in Japan in 1984.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1991

595Types

1,436,000Sheets

1992

3,156Types

3,470,000Sheets

1993

10,169Types

5,869,000Sheets

1994

23,223Types

12,500,000Sheets

July, 1995

40,043Types

17,568,960Sheets

October, 1996

42,209Types

17,102,769Sheets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 BASIC GUIDE

First, be award of the fact the there are largely two kinds of public telephone card, and then make nice collecting plan in accordance with their classification so that you may not face financial difficulty during the process.

 

1.Ordinary card

It is included Regional card which sells by regional groups to this as kinds which can buy through the sale stand of the city normally. The kind which mistakes manufacturing company classification of J.W.K. in front left tail of telephone card prepares "set" and professional collectors should know to classify till large, middle, small of serial numbers.To collect from being published now is trick in the early days of collection and buy each one by classificatory groups and must not be greed.

(Economic principle) Have to prepare perfect "set" through communication sale of telephone office or professional treatment in the case of Regional Card.

 

2. Custom Order Card

It is the card for publicity, advertisement which a design is selected freely as the class which common people normally call it advertisement card.

The professional collectors call [Full set] collection of dream because of being more than 120,000types from July, 1991 to October, 1966.
The worldly fashion is that decides the topic to suit collector's professional department or his taste and collects only proper cards to it. Never to fall to whole collection is the trick and the topics which are popular in the world are star performer, famous person, animal, plant, religion, sports, cartoon, traffic means, tourist resort, folk customs, building.

 KEEPING METHOD

In the case of unuse, to keep original packing itself lucratives because the effect of unuse promotes and even though unusing card or using card which don't have packing keep in professional album with individual packing with vinyl which is sale in treatment, they are comfortable to arrange to publishing order of serial number and unuse and use mark with dividing.
Even though the case of using cares for lightly with staining cleaning material(soap or tableware wash) in sponji before packing it cares for no erasing of serial number and it is good to avoid because damaged things are not the value of goods.

 

PROFESSIONAL COLLECTION

It is the trick which sensitives the information of publication of card and touchs many professional books of telephone card of all the countries of the world even though participates many telephone card exchange meeting and increases one's collection kinds for being professional collector.

Of course, the fast method enters into the same taste meeting of collection and is the method which participates into information alternating current through monthly meeting and regular interchange meeting and it is also good to drop in professional treatment store frequently.

 

HOBBY INVESTEMENT NATURE

The collection heat becomes acceleration from the middle of 1980 by 150 countries which are publishing card now as France shows the first public exhibition of public telephone card in last 1976.
Because Korea has short history of card until now, it is investment object of worldly telephone card collectors by good point which to start collection activity now is not late.