Dr. Sherwood Hall’s TB/Christmas and New Year Woodblock Print Cards

Along with Dr. Sherwood Hall’s TB/Christmas and New Year seal program, which began in 1932, to raise money for fighting tuberculosis in Korea, a number of items related to the design of the seals where promoted and sold to the public to raise additional funds. As we have seen in earlier articles published on the […]

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Japanese Offices in Korea Double-Circle Date Stamps (1876-1888)

This is a collection of date stamps used in Japanese Offices in Korea from 1876 to 1888. During this period the first type of CDS, “double-circle date stamps”, was used at Busan (or “Fusan” in Japanese), Wonsan (or “Gensan”), and Incheon (or “Ninsen”). The Japanese-language version of this exhibit was shown at JAPEX 2019 and […]

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KPC3531: 200th Anniversary of the Birth of St. Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 20 August 2021 KoreaPost issued a stamp issue commemorating the “200th Anniversary of the Birth of St. Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn”. The stamp was also issued in a minisheet of 3 x 5 stamps (15), at 380 won each. The stamps were printed by Cartor for POSA.

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KSC5362: Let us emulate the ennobling revolutionary spirit and indomitable fighting mettle displayed by the elder generations of the revolution

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 20 August 2021 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a set stating “Let us emulate the ennobling revolutionary spirit and indomitable fighting mettle displayed by the elder generations of the revolution”.

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Korean Relief Inc. and the Story of Father Aloysius Schwartz

Our past Chairman and Publisher of the Korea Stamp Society (KSS), Ivo Spanjersberg, has long urged that he and I write an article about the Korean Relief Inc. organization and its related Korean philatelic items. Various items of postal history, including postal stationery, aerogrammes, Christmas seals and labels, and other related merchandize, are frequently seen […]

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International Women’s Day (8 March) Featured in the Philately of the DPRK

In the period from 1953-1960, four issues of stamps, dedicated to the International Women’s Day (8 March) were issued in North Korea (this day is mainly celebrated in the territory of the former USSR, and some countries of Asia and Africa). Since 2019 this holiday has been a regional holiday in Berlin, Germany.

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“I’ll make the world the way I like it!”

It is well-known that the People Republic of China (PRC) rewrites its history as it deems politically correct. The same goes for pictures showing the history of China. Since you haven’t seen everything yourself, you seldom notice it, of course. But here we have two stamp images that are supposed to show the same thing, […]

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