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Wall-mounted Automatic Telephone

벽걸이형 자동식 전화기 ( 벽걸이形 自動式 電話機 )

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Classification National Registered Cultural Heritage
Name of Cultural Properties Wall-mounted Automatic Telephone
Quantity One Item
Designated Date 2009.04.22
Age 1935
Address KT Wolgok Branch, 67-48, Wolgok 2-dong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul

This is an automatic telephone manufactured by Japan Electricity Co., Ltd. in 1935 to which automatic dials are attached. This kind of telephone had been used from March, 1935 when the automatic phone was accepted by Najin Postal Service and October, 1935 by Gyeongseong Telephone Company until the year of 1962 when the standard requirement of an automatic telephone was fixed by the Ministry of Communication and the first telephone entitled, ‘Chesin (meaning ‘Communication’) No.1’ was produced. This brief history grants this item scarcity value.