Supporting Philatelists Since 1952
The 2018 Christmas Seals produced by the Korean National Tuberculosis Association (대한결핵협회 / KNTA) won the second prize at the 49th Union World Conference on Lung Health held in The Hague (The Netherlands) by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (“The Union” / IUATLD). Heritage and Organisational Members from nine countries, such as India, Hong Kong and […]
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The 1936 Korea Christmas and New Year seal varieties are not as complicated as in some previous years. There is only one single type of design with children flying a kite. See Figure 1. The 1936 seal was again designed by Elizabeth Keith. When the seals were sold in sheets, or along with the artist’s […]
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 25 December 2018 the 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation issued a stamp showing the Ryugyong General Ophthalmic Hospital in Pyongyang.
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 25 December 2018 the 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation issued two stamp sheets with four stamps showing the Pyongyang Primary School for Orphans and Pyongyang Middle School for Orphans.
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This return to an old question was motivated by the 2003 Scott listing of North Korea, where the man on this 1952 stamp (Sc30) is identified as General P’eng Teh-huai – he was the Commander of the Chinese forces in the Korean War, and later Chinese Defence Minister, and victim of the Cultural Revolution. In […]
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In reading old issues of Korean Philatelic (KP) before scanning for the new KSS website, I noticed that Dr. Sherwood Hall’s personal collection of Christmas and New Year’s seals was donated to the Smithsonian Institute in 1972. I was not even aware of this collection. Then in the May, 1974 issue of the KP, James […]
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An envelope sent to me by a Korean stamp dealer showed me something I hadn’t thought about before: the exact same stamp with different perforations. The envelope comes with four different souvenir sheets related to (philatelic) exhibitions, the Word Fair EXPO 93 in Taejeon in 1993 and the international philatelic exhibition known as PhilaKorea in […]
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This is Part 2 of the BOOKLETS WITH COLOR BARS article. On 1/24/1994 the Ministry issued the first “Portable Booklet” to commemorate the 21st U.P.U. Congress (3rd issue). This issue started the color bars for a total of 15 issues through 3/27/1996. All of these were in the “Portable Booklet” format. For explanation see part […]
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I attended the Rocky Mountain Stamp Show in Denver, Colorado. There at the show I was able to acquire a number of Korean stamps that I needed for my collection. I asked one dealer if he had any Korean stamps or stationery. He showed me what he had, including that block of 10 stamps (Scott’s […]
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(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 3 December 2018 KoreaPost released two stamps celebrating the New Year and New Year’s Greetings. After the year of the dog, 2018, the year 2019 will be the year of the (earth) pig, which is why these two stamps depict pigs.
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