Korea Stamp Society

Asian Politics via Meter Stamp Slogans

February 8, 2018September 8, 2018 Rick Stambaugh (editing) and Ivo Spanjersberg (text)1413Leave a Comment

(Text originally published in MSS Quarterly Bulletin Nr. 314.) Shown here are two Republic of Korea (South Korea) Post Office meter stamps from 2005 with pictorial propaganda slogans. The top slogan is a map of the Sea of Japan (or East Sea as the Koreans call it) with a circle around the Dokdo Islands in the […]

KSC5156: 70th Anniversary of KPRA as Regular Revolutionary Armed Force (III)

February 8, 2018May 6, 2018 Jo Pieters1086Leave a Comment

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) A stamp / stamp sheet titled “70th Anniversary of Day When KPRA Was Developed into a Regular Revolutionary Armed Force” was released by the Korea Stamp Corporation on 8 February 2018.

KSC5155: 70th Anniversary of KPRA as Regular Revolutionary Armed Force (II)

February 8, 2018May 6, 2018 Jo Pieters1168Leave a Comment

KSC5154: 70th Anniversary of KPRA as Regular Revolutionary Armed Force

February 8, 2018May 6, 2018 Jo Pieters1045Leave a Comment

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) A stamp titled “70th Anniversary of Day When KPRA Was Developed into a Regular Revolutionary Armed Force” was released by the Korea Stamp Corporation on 8 February 2018.

A Report On (N.) Korean Philately Part 3: The Philatelic Situation in (North) Korea

February 7, 2018June 14, 2018 Shih Wai Zhong1448Leave a Comment

Korea has many philatelists. At times of new issues, one can see many citizens and students at the Pyongyang stamp shop buying stamps. Several years ago Pyongyang stamp shop had a clearance sale, the 1957 reprints of the early liberation period were sold at the low price of 50 chon (ordinary money) each, and were […]

A Report on (N.) Korean Philately part 2: The Sale and Distribution of Korean Stamps

February 7, 2018February 8, 2018 Shih Wai Zhong1270Leave a Comment

Korean stamps have two completely different issuing purposes, and for this reason there are two distinct methods of marketing. Before talking of marketing, however, we must first introduce the internal currency situation in the country. At the present time, three distinct types of currency circulate: the ordinary people use ordinary Won Then there is a […]

Korean Philately – November 2012 / February 2013

February 7, 2018November 29, 2018 KP Online Editor1208Leave a Comment

Contents of the double edition of Korean Philately Volume 54 Number 4 / Volume 55 Number 1. This was the November 2012 / February 2013 edition of the KP.

Korean Stamp Review (2014 Spring/Summer)

February 7, 2018August 17, 2018 Ivo Spanjersberg1206Leave a Comment

In existence since 1976 the Korean Stamp Review is the magazine “authorized by KoreaPost” and published by the Korean Philatelic Center, which is also known for the Korea Postage Stamp Catalogue. In Korea it was available printed at high quality. Online the editions from 2002 – 2014 are still available.

Korean Postage Stamp Catalogue 2015-2016

February 7, 2018June 14, 2018 Ivo Spanjersberg15666 Comments

For the years 2015-2016 the Korean Philatelic Co. produced the regularly published Korean Postage Stamp Catalogue, the standard catalogue for Korean philately at the moment. The catalogue conforms to the usual setup: postal stamps in the first part of the catalogue, divided in commemorative stamps and regular stamps, and the specialties in the second half.

Korean Stamp Catalogue 1946-2006

February 7, 2018February 8, 2018 P. Kevin MacKeown3182Leave a Comment

(Korean Philately November 2006) The latest in a series of catalogues that goes back as far as 1958, the newest edition combines the stamp catalogue with the catalogue of postal stationary—the only previous edition of which, Korea Postal Stationery & Maxicard Catalogue 1948-1998, came out in 1999. Apart from the maximum cards, which have been dropped […]

Korean Postage Stamp Catalogue 2002

February 7, 2018September 29, 2018 F. L. Korean1424Leave a Comment

(Article comes with price increases and possible errors.) The KPC (Korean Postage Stamp Catalogue) has been published since nineteen aught (I-don’t-know-when), by the Korean Philatelic Co., Ltd. In Hangul/Korean, they go by the name of Oo-moon kwon. I first became familiar with their catalogue in 1991.

Korean Postage Stamp Catalogue 2007

February 7, 2018February 8, 2018 F. L. Korean; Peter Beck1739Leave a Comment

(This text includes extra remarks by Peter Beck regarding this catalogue.) The KPC (Korean Postage Stamp Catalogue) has been published since nineteen aught (I-don’t-know-when), by the Korean Philatelic Co., Ltd. In Hangul/Korean, they go by the name of Oo-moon kwon. I first became familiar with their catalogue in 1991.

Korean FDC’s: “Trying to fill in the blanks”

February 7, 2018September 30, 2018 F. L. Korean1530Leave a Comment

“Korea’s Special Souvenir Card for the Gold Medal Winners of the 1960 Olympics” was a neat little historical item in Korean Philately, (November 1997, page 8) contributed by KSS member Jack Kay. The article reminded me of an episode in my early Korean collecting-life.

Korea’s Special Souvenir Card for the Gold Medal Winners of the 1960 Olympics

February 6, 2018February 7, 2018 Jack Kay1315Leave a Comment

For the first and only time in the history of the Olympics, gold medal winners were also awarded a philatelic gift. The Government of the Republic of Korea presented a 5 x 8 1/4″ souvenir card with the two Olympic stamps issued by Korea with the special first day pictorial cancel. The card itself was […]

A Report on (N.) Korean Philately part 1: (North) Korean Stamp Issues

February 6, 2018February 8, 2018 Shih Wai Zhong1476

A rough translation by Prof. P. Kevin MacKeown of an article originally published in Jiyou, No. 1, 1996, and originally published in Chinese, in the People’s Republic of China. The author, Shih Wai Zhong, was born in Shanghai in January, 1944, and is currently an associate researcher in the Academica Sinica’s Natural Resources Research Council. From […]

Post Office Postcards 2012

February 6, 2018November 30, 2018 Ivo Spanjersberg1316Leave a Comment

In 2012 a series of postcards was sold in post offices all over Korea showing a Korean postman through the ages. The cards show five different periods, starting with Joseon Dynasty times. The next four cards show the last 100 years, up to 2012. Notice all the small details included in the cards.