What this is
A reading of every Pokémon Korea filing on Korea's product-safety register: all its domestic filings name Korea as the country of manufacture, and no filing for the card game itself names Japan at any date.
How it’s built
- All filings listed under Pokémon Korea as maker or importer were read at listing level, and the card-related ones opened one by one.
- Each filing's declared country of manufacture was tallied. Japan appears only on accessories such as card sleeves and coins, never on the card game.
- The card game's own certificates were put in date order: imported from the US in 2010, made in Korea from 2010 to 2011, imported from China in 2016, and made in Korea again from 2018.
What we assumed
- The maker named on a certificate is the holder of record, not necessarily the printing plant.One 2015 accessory filing names a separate Korean maker, which shows the field can differ from the plant; the card-game certificates name no plant at all.
Sanity check
Pokémon Korea does declare Japan where goods are made there, as on its current card sleeves, so the absence of Japan on the card game is not a habit of leaving the field blank.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:
- FiledA 2016 Korean safety certificate for the Pokémon Card Game filed as an import, with China as the country of manufacture and Pokémon Korea as the importer. It has since expired
- FiledKC record B361S044-0001 (importer-search row), register as of 3 November 2026
- ReportedRegister letter assumption test: R-numbered record with domestic 제조국 and a named third-party maker, register as of 3 November 2026
Show the working
- Domestic filings read: 26
- Domestic period: 10 March 2010 to 10 July 2026
- Domestic country: 대한민국/한국 on 26 of 26
- Domestic maker: (주)포켓몬코리아 on 26 of 26
- count of archived certDetail pages (archive-G/det/*.html, det.json): 26 maker-type records all 제조국 KR
- 10 import-type records (CB064R3488-6001, CB065R3295-26001, CB067R3213-6001..6008) 제조국 VN/CN, 수입업체 (주)포켓몬코리아
- red team: importer listing 176 rows, 23 card-related, 12 further details opened (archive-RT/), incl
- CB063R1389-6001 (2016, 중국) and B361S044-0001 (2010, 미국)
Where it’s used
Related figures
Built from this one
- ReportedRegister letter assumption test: R-numbered record with domestic 제조국 and a named third-party maker, register as of 3 November 2026
- EstimateCard leg of D12 after kc register, TPC year to February 2026 (tail year to February 2027)
- EstimateTPC purchases room for goods if 8 25% royalty continued 2022 25, 2022–2025
- EstimateBounds on card purchases from TPC, 2017–2021
- EstimateD12 resized by purchase note, 2025 ≈ TPC year to February 2026