PSA does not grade modern Korean. Only base set…
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As for value raw they sell for around $10. And every single one I have is flawless. Korean is like Japanese when it comes to print quality.
Korean is absolutely not like Japanese with print quality. It is on par with English.
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Whatever you say but I literally open korean product like crazy…I’ll post some pictures of all 3 when I get home.
As far as thickness I found it the same as well. Have no idea where that came from. The only difference I’ve noticed is the shade of blue used on the back.
It’s cheap as he’ll compared to Japan and English but the print quality is not.
This is talking about modern Korean, like OP asked about. I don’t know about old Korean since back then I never collected it, or knew that it even existed.
You must be real lucky.
It is widely accepted that the reason Korean cards are cheap, is because they have poor quality.
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Sorry for the late reply, had issues with my scanner so had to take pics with the point and shoot.
These were all pulled by myself, then placed into a sleeve.
English, Japanese & Korean. They all look great on the front, some centering issues but well within the 60/40 that people on here consider gem mint.
The back is where you can see the big difference between print quality.
Korean on top, English on bottom. This is the reason the English Charizard is going for $200+ in PSA 10, it’s so hard to find one without white-ning nightmares… if it was as good as Korean they would be $50 all day…the market does not lie. I personally like it to be honest, it made it a even bigger chase card than it should have been.
@maverick75 @ozenigma It really depends on the set. Some Korean sets are in excellent quality, others are even worse than the rumors state… The Korean CP6 set was actually pretty good in terms of quality. Much better than the English XY Evolutions, which had almost as much errors as the Base Set… The WotC era of Korean cards was pretty good as well, but most sets after that were indeed of poorer quality in both paper used and centering and whitening.
I recently opened three Korean CP1 (Double Crisis) boosters when I was looking for the Seviper. Although most were in normal quality, some where badly off-centered and loads of cards had ink drops (like 1 in every 10 cards on average), and it also wasn’t uncommon to find cards with whitening at the front and/or back right out of the pack. Same applied to one of the early Sun & Moon sets (don’t know which one it was exactly anymore).
The last Korean booster box I opened however, which was the GX Battle Boost (containing a Pikachu, Seviper, and Mimikyu in one set, best scenario ever for my collection goals 
) was in excellent quality. All of them are a mirror-like kind of Reverse Holo, and it didn’t had any off-centered, whitening, scratches or ink drops whatsoever. Every single card was in great quality. (And I absolutely loved the kind of Reverse Holos. Wish the English and foreign Reverse Holos were as beautiful as these… I posted about them in my collection thread at the time.)
So it really depends on which set. Some Korean sets are great, other Korean sets have all kind of flaws (especially off-centered and ink drops for some reason).
Greetz,
Quuador
korean unlimited base set is where the moneys at