Kpop fans are probably no stranger to Photocard. They seem to be the rarest and most loved items for those who love to collect idol cards.
Although it is a display photo, legendary photocards can fetch a high price because they are quite difficult to find. Based on eBay auctions, here are the most expensive K-Pop photocards sold in the past few months.
Their sky-high prices will blow you away:
10. TWICE Tzuyu:
Tzuyu's Superstar JYP Nation event photocard sold for USD 318.00. This is a rather old photo of Tzuyu in the event to celebrate the birth of the game SuperStar JYPNation by JYP Entertainmentn. But it is sought after by her fans because it is a limited photocard, only 100 cards.
09. LOONA Heejin:
Heejin' 1/3’s albums photocards sold for USD 320.00. They included two photocards.
This is a card from the album Love&Live Limited ver and Love& evil limited ver, only those who buy these vesions will have the opportunity to own these photocards. These two albums are no longer on the market, so their prices must be said to be sky high.
08. BTS SUGA:
Suga's 2014 Season’s Greetings photocard sold for $350.00 USD. This is the photocard included in MD Diary Seasons Greeting Limited Edition Postcards.
This is also the first annual package consisting of year planners and a behind the scenes DVD in the career of BTS in general and SUGA in particular. Because of its rarity, the price is so expensive and are difficult to find nowadays.
07. BTS Jungkook, Jimin, V, Suga
BTS NOW photocards featuring Suga, Jimin, V and Jungkook sold for $399.99 USD.
It is a pair of photocards consisting of two pairs of members, V and SUGA, Jimin and Jungkook. This is a photocard from BTS Debut Photocards from the No More Dream era.
It can be said that it has been a long time since this album was released. So obviously it's hard to find official photocards. Only BTS fans from the beginning own them.
06. BTS Jungkook
Congratulations to those who still own Jungkook's photocard from the Skool Luv Affair era. Currently, it's being searched everywhere for the USD 439.99. This is Jungkook's photocard from the Skool Luv Affair special edition album.
05. BTS
The group's photocard sold for USD 459.99.
These familiar images of BTS are when recording the song "Dope" - one of the first songs marking the group's new transformation success. Of course, the more valuable thing in this photocard is the memory.
Few people still own photocards from their first albums. Later, although more albums were published and more people had the opportunity to own photocards, but rare things like the group's photocard of SPECIAL Young Forever Official Photocard, only those who followed BTS from the beginning still own.
04. BTS Jimin
Similar to SUGA's photocard, Jimin's photocard from 2014 Season’s Greetings sold for USD 590.00. He looks so cute in the picture and looking at the picture, anyone is nostalgic about his debut days.
03. BTS V
Besides SUGA and Jimin, V's photocard from 2014 Season's Greetings sold out for USD 599.99. His first photocards were quite rare. This is understandable because at this early stage Big Hit produced a modest amount of merch and it was also limited goods.
02. Red Velvet Seulgi
Seulgi's photocard from the Superstar SMTOWN Halloween event sold for USD 640.00. It is the most expensive female artist's photocard today. This is a limited photocard so it is difficult to find it at the moment.
01. BTS V
V's old photo cards are the most expensive in Kpop, its hundreds of times the original price. Recently, V photocard for BTS's first Muster fan meeting costs up to USD 839.99.
The expensiveness of this old card proves that early photocards are true treasures. It also shows that those who own photocards are really rich. It's unbelievable that pictures can cost close to $1000.
But as mentioned, what counts here is the memory! It's worth the price!
