International messaging system and method for operating the system

An international messaging method transmitting a short message between terminals of a first country and a second country, wherein:

• an operational method of a first system positioned in the first country comprises the steps of:
• receiving a short message inputted by a caller from a first communication provider system;
• encoding the received short message;
• and
• transmitting the encoded short message to the second system via a predetermined communication network, and
• an operational method of a second system positioned in the second country comprises the steps of:
• receiving the encoded short message transmitted from the first system;
• decoding the received short message;
• converting the decoded short message into image data, and recording the converted image data in a predetermined storage unit;
• and
• controlling a receipt notification message including receipt of the short message and address information containing the converted image data to be sent to a receiver of the short message via the second communication provider system, and
• the receiver receives the receipt notification message and accesses the address information containing the image data by means of an affirmative response to the receipt notification message to read the image data.

An international messaging method transmitting a short message between terminals of a first country and a second country, wherein:

• an operational method of a first system comprises the steps of:
• maintaining image characters corresponding to a language of the first country in a database, and maintaining a character input table matching a keypad input signal of a communication terminal and the image character;
• receiving the keypad input signals inputted from the communication terminal on the basis of the character input table;
• extracting the image characters corresponding to the keypad input signals in accordance with the character input table;
• generating text data corresponding to the image characters;
• and
• encoding the text data to transmit the same to a second system, and wherein
• the second system transmits a message including the text data transmitted from the first system to a receiver terminal via the communication provider system located in the second country.