Data communication has historically evolved from leased lines, to use of the public telephone network, and eventually to dedicated(exclusive) data networks. It requires an enormous amount of money for establishing a separate and independent data network at the beginning stage. No country has ever adopted this method In the Republic of Korea too the age of leased circuits is passing and it is scheduled to open the public telephone network to the data transmission and to install packet mode processor in the last half of 1983. This paper presents a survey on characteristics of the public telephone network in Seoul and a future development of the data communication of Korea.