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`The telephone, one of the most convenient and fast means of communication was invented on March 10, 1876 and this year marks its centenary. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3,1847. He emigrated to Canada in 1870 and later settled down in the United States of America. While he was devoting himself to the tranining of teachers of the deaf as a vocal physiologist, he was interested in the transmission of sound by electricity and invented as a result of his studies an apparatus that became the forerunner of the modin telephone. In Korea, the telephone was first installed in 1898 and the number of telephone subscribers has steadily increased and now crossed the one million mark. On the occasion of the centenary of the first telephone transmission, the Ministry of Communications is issuing a commemorative postage stamp in order to publicize widely this significant anniversary and pledges itself anew to better serve the people through further development of telecommunication services.`