Korea Stamp Society

KPC3372-3381: Kakao Friends

May 30, 2019June 21, 2019 Ivo Spanjersberg4210Leave a Comment

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 30 May 2019 KoreaPost released ten stamps showing the “Kakao Friends” (“카카오프렌즈”). These are characters based on KakaoTalk emoticons released in November 2012 by Kakao.

Postal History of the Russo-Japan War Related to Korea (Part I)

May 29, 2019February 22, 2021 Ken Clark1377Leave a Comment

The exhibit shows the postal history of the Forerunners from the Sino-Japanese War, occupation of Korea, China, Manchuria, and Formosa, the Boxer Uprising in China, then the Russo-Japanese War and the Field Post Office (FPO) system, with mail being transported back to Japan by ship and to Russia by the Trans-Siberian railway. The International world […]

KSC5215: Our national flag

May 28, 2019September 15, 2019 Per-Olof Jönsson1044Leave a Comment

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The Korea Stamp Corporation has issued a souvenir sheet with one stamp to reflect the lyrics and music of song “Our National Flag”.

Dr. Moon Chang-Mo Resurrects Korean TB/Christmas New Year Seal Program In 1949

May 25, 2019May 25, 2019 Robert (Bob) Finder1300Leave a Comment

The program begun by Dr. Sherwood Hall, who had been born in 1893 in Korea to Methodist missionaries and doctors, to raise funds to fight tuberculosis (TB) in Korea by issuing Christmas and New Years seals, ended in 1940, as the Japanese forced him to leave the country. It would not be until 1949 that […]

KSS Monograph 2: Korean English Philatelic Glossary

May 23, 2019May 12, 2019 Stanley Kim2324Leave a Comment

First published as a for print publication by Stanley Kim in 1993, this glossary is now being developed in digital form. Originally meant “to assist collectors using either Korean or English to organize their collections, literature, and their own write-ups for exhibitions or just in their albums” it can these days also be used especially […]

KPC3371: Redefinition of the SI Base Units (promotion materials)

May 22, 2019February 3, 2020 KP Online Editor1337Leave a Comment

On 20 May 2019 KoreaPost released a stamp to commemorate the “Redefinition of the SI Base Units”. Together with the stamp release KoreaPost also released extra promotion materials showing the idea behind the international standards commemorated by this release.

“CENZAN*POST” Datestamp: A New Find

May 21, 2019May 19, 2019 Greg Todd1148Leave a Comment

While working on a Corinphila Auction (April 2006), I was lucky enough to locate and later certify, the attached Postal Stationery card with two fine strikes of this rare mark. The late Meiso Mizuhara’s book showed, on page 18 in Postal History of Korea his recorded dates of use of this rare cancellation: May 20, […]

KPC3371: Redefinition of the SI Base Units

May 20, 2019May 17, 2019 Ivo Spanjersberg1669Leave a Comment

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 20 May 2019 KoreaPost released a stamp to commemorate the “Redefinition of the SI Base Units”, the system which includes standards for such things as temperature and weight.

Reader’s Question: Imperforated Scott 429 / KSC 393

May 18, 2019May 14, 2019 YONG S YI27302 Comments

The picture below is the 1962 Scott #429 / KSC #393 imperforated 10 jeon “Launch of Soviet Manned Rockets Vostok 3&4”. The KSC does mention an imperforated version. However, the Scott catalog does not mention an imperforated version of this stamp. I wonder how many of our readers have seen or possess this stamp?

Unrecorded Postal Stationery from North Korea

May 15, 2019April 21, 2019 Kevin MacKeown23842 Comments

The Pyongyang published Korean Postal Stationery & Maxicard Catalogue of 1999 was an eye-opener for most of us in revealing the richness of postal stationery issued there over the years. It followed on Todd’s pioneering Catalogue of North Korean Postal Stationery 1947-1961 of 1997, and some listings in this Journal (Korean Philately, 34, No.2, 4-9; […]

The Revenue Stamps of Seoul City (part 2 of 3)

May 8, 2019May 8, 2019 Ivo Spanjersberg14223 Comments

(Part 2 of 3) Like most countries which at one time used revenue stamps, South Korea has a long history of using local revenue stamps. Until the 1970s these local revenue stamps were produced locally, each with a unique design per province or municipality. From 1976 onwards local revenue stamps were produced nationally (with standardized […]

KSC5213-5214: 80th Anniversary of the Victorious Battles in the Musan Area

May 5, 2019September 15, 2019 Per-Olof Jönsson1182Leave a Comment

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On May 5 2019 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued one stamp and a souvenir sheetlet to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Victorious Battles in the Musan Area between May 22 and 23 Juche 28 (1939), under, it is said, the leadership of the great leader Comrade Kim […]

KPC08035119: 350 won (regular) postal card

May 1, 2019July 2, 2019 Ivo Spanjersberg936Leave a Comment

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 1 May 2019 KoreaPost issued a new postal card. The card has an imprinted stamp with a value of 350 won. This is the first new postal card issued by KoreaPost since July 2018.

A Note on the 2002 North Korean Surcharges

May 1, 2019May 2, 2019 Kevin MacKeown14622 Comments

Watching the endless stream of opportunistic issues, largely directed at gullible collectors, coming out from North Korea year after year, it is a pleasant philatelic experience to encounter something unexpected from this source. It has, of course, occurred in the recent past with the discovery of the domestic paper varieties – the ‘yellow paper’ issues […]