Hey E4,
It’s been a while since I’ve posted my own topic here but I have some questions regarding Korean cp6 and hoping to gain some knowledge and Insights regarding it from members who are more experienced with this language expansion.
To give a brief summary, I purchased 3 sealed Korean 20th anniversary booster boxes back in 2016. Two of which I opened and one I eventually consigned a sealed box break with rusty tca gaming in 21’/22’ that did surprisingly well.
Recently I decided to grade a few cards with CGC through fanatics. The pop reports of these cards are extremely low. I currently have them priced high since there is no sales data. Between the 3 cards pictured below they are all POP 1 of 3 or less. My question is; is this set scare in this language or is there 100s of copies out there but no desire to grade them?
My personal view on the Korean print is that it was a very limited run. There isnt many if any packs, boxes or raw cards availible on any market place but that could also be because they aren’t deemed valuable and worth grading.
I’d be interested to hear you opinions regarding this.
My experience with Korean s8b VMAX Climax is very similar to yours - barely anything in the PSA or CGC pop reports. Like I am talking only a handful total.
I think Korean sets just simply haven’t been graded as much, and also far less product has left South Korea, when compared to Japanese
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I just find it strange that I was just getting back into collecting in 2016 and exploring where pokemon was at that time and I managed to find and purchase three Korean cp6 boxes off eBay and now a decade later there isnt much supply listed or history of graded/sold cards.
I think this is the story for any Korean before SWSH era. An absolute nightmare to find outside of KR unless you get lucky with an ebay/cardmarket listing. Other than base ued, gen 3, gen 4, promos nothing has been particularly hard to find once you get access to the KR market.
Most Koreans in my experience also don’t grade with CGC or PSA unless it is a particularly rare/valuable card that they are trying to sell outside of KR
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On a side note - twice in my collecting career, I reached out to several (dozens) Korean sellers on ebay in hopes to find a specific rare card. Both times atleast one person was able to find the card I needed. Korean sellers are so friendly. One told me they were grateful that I was interested in Korean cards.
Agreed with others though, there isn’t the priority placed on grading in South Korea. You rarely see a graded card for sale in South Korea
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I saw Korean and CP6 in the title, so I flex. 
And to be honest I can’t really answer your question on Korean print runs or collector preferences. I completed the full arts just because I had a crush on CP6 and can’t control myself from expanding locales.
The only thing I know though is that at least for PSA they only accept Base Set for languages outside English and Japanese at the time the set released, so I didn’t send my set in until 2021 when they finally started taking those.
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