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A method of operating and managing a laundry room machine that performs a washing operation and a drying operation according to a payment made by customers is provided. The method includes setting information of payments and operating conditions and setting operating conditions according to a paymen

A method of operating and managing a laundry room machine that performs a washing operation and a drying operation according to a payment made by customers is provided. The method includes setting information of payments and operating conditions and setting operating conditions according to a payment additionally inserted while a drying operation is performed, receiving information of a payment insertion from the payment device and operating a predetermined operation according to the set operating conditions, and receiving information of an additional payment insertion from the payment device while a drying operation is performed and performing an additional drying operation according to the information of the additional payment insertion based on the setting operating conditions according to the payment additionally inserted while the drying operation is performed.

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1. A method of operating and managing a laundry room machine, which includes a payment device that collects a payment for operating the laundry room machine and performs a drying course preset according to payment collecting information initially received from the payment device, wherein the drying

1. A method of operating and managing a laundry room machine, which includes a payment device that collects a payment for operating the laundry room machine and performs a drying course preset according to payment collecting information initially received from the payment device, wherein the drying course is performed sequentially from a heating phase to a cooling phase, wherein hot air is supplied during the heating phase and the hot air is not supplied during the cooling phase, and wherein the payment device allows the payment to additionally be received while the initially preset drying course is being performed, the method comprising: when payment collecting information is additionally received while the initially preset drying course is being performed, resetting the initially preset drying course according to the additionally received payment collecting information and then performing the reset drying course, wherein if the payment collecting information is additionally received while the cooling phase is being performed, the cooling phase changes to the heating phase. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein, operating conditions of the laundry room machine including the drying course are set through a separate communicator. 3. A method of operating and managing a laundry room machine, which includes a payment device that collects a payment for operating a laundry room machine and performs a drying course preset according to payment collecting information initially received from the payment device, wherein the payment device allows the payment to additionally be received while the initially preset drying course is being performed, the method comprising: when payment collecting information is additionally received while the initially preset drying course is being performed, resetting the initially preset drying course according to the additionally received payment collecting information and then performing the reset drying course, wherein if an operating time assigned according to the initially preset drying course is longer than a predetermined maximum operating time, the resetting of the initially preset drying course is not performed and only the initially preset drying course is performed although the payment collecting information is additionally received while the initially preset drying course is being performed.