Sunday, November 18, 2007

Modifying a Kyotong Card (Korea)

http://blog.naver.com/zlzkcb/120032570256

Basically, it is reforming a kyotongcard to create your own style through the following process.

"Tuning" is from tuning a car/ a cell phone (people arrange and reform the
outfit of their cell phones)
tuning01(attached file name): Soak a regular kyotong card in Acetone (chemical source that makes nail polish remover- you have to get an undiluted liquid from drug store) to remove its plastic outfit

tuning02: Leave it under plastic wrap

tuning02_01: Soak it into hot water for a while

tuning03: "Abstract" the copper wire and micro chip (that are connected to
each other)
tuning04: (this blogger is going to use a Korean trump card - made of plastic)

turning05: use two pieces of card. cut out the middle part of one card and attach the frame to another card.

tuning 06, 07: Glue the copper wire and micro chip to the card.

tuning 03-another, tuning05-another: same process of another case. this person is tuning the card to his cell phone.
Hope you could get an idea of how it looks like! The picture attached (key holders and cell phone straps, at right) was made by a company. There are also companies that produce order-made kyotong cards. Maybe changing the materiality of virtual money?

(text courtesy of Seo Young Park)

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