Receipt for unpaid or insufficiently paid mail

The front cover of Kiku Shimbun 169 (August 2016) features a rare item of Japanese postal history from North Korea. Following the end of WWII and the Japanese Surrender, USA Forces moved into Seoul, Korea, whilst Soviet Forces move from Manchuria in the northern parts of Korea, both of these subjects and the eventual division […]

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Korean Passport Stamps in U.S. Dollars in Passport

Hasegawa’s new revenue catalogue does not include those stamps issued in the U.S. in U.S. dollars. Figures 1 and 2 illustrate two such stamps, denominated $10, and contained in my own passport that has now expired and has been cancelled. The stamps were used to verify payment of visa fees. One has a serial number, […]

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KSC5164: 70th Anniv. of April 1948 Joint Conference of the Representatives of Political Parties and Public Organizations in North and South Korea.

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) A souvenir sheet was issued on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of April 1948 Joint Conference of the Representatives of Political Parties and Public Organizations in North and South Korea. 

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KSC5163A: Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un’s Unofficial Visit to the PRC

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, paid an unofficial visit to China from March 25 to 28 at the invitation of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party […]

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KSC5161-5163: 106th Birthday of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The State Stamp Bureau of the DPRK has issued the stamps showing Samjiyon Grand Monument reflecting the exploits of anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle performed by the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung on the occasion of the Day of the Sun. 

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Dr. Sherwood Hall’s Christmas and New Year Seals of Korea 1932-1940 catalogue

Published privately in 2006 by Stephen J. Hasegawa the “Dr. Sherwood Hall’s Christmas and New Year Seals of Korea 1932-1940” catalogue is even today still the only publication listing in-depth the seals published by Dr. Sherwood Hall in Korea in the 1930s. 

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Blogs with contents on korean philately: Arabesque blog, by blogger Komoro1939

Blogger komoro1939 gives an in-depth retrospective of unusual korean material recently offered on ebay or other auctions. His comments are always interesting. So this is a sort of chronology on new material and worthwhile reading. Very much recommended, particular if you are into the Korean kingdom/Empire 1895/1905 philatelic period. 

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