Supporting Philatelists Since 1952
In 1955 the Korean National Tuberculosis Association issued a Christmas/Tuberculosis (TB) seal. This seal was printed by lithograph on un-watermarked gummed paper and sold in sheets of 100 seals. The 1955 seal shows two white cranes in flight. Unlike the 1954 TB seal, this seal was well designed and printed, and there are no known […]
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(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 27 December 2022 KoreaPost issued a stamp issue commemorating the “200th Anniversary of the Birth of Louis Pasteur”. The stamps were also issued in a minisheet of 5 x 3 stamps of 430 won each. The stamps were printed by Royal Johan Enschedé for POSA.
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From the first printed stamps in South Korea in 1946 after the WWII, up to around 1953, many of those issues can be found printed as imperforated stamps, double printed stamps and stamps printed on both sides. The stamps were issued by the US Military from 1946-1948. On August 15, 1948, the South Korean government […]
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(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 16 December 2022 KoreaPost issued a stamp issue commemorating the “Succesful Launch of Nuri”. The stamps were also issued in a minisheet of 4 x 4 stamps of 430 won each. The stamps were printed by Cartor for POSA.
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Dr. Sharrocks, one of our mission doctors had brought word from the exiled Syngman Rhee to the Koreans seeking independence advising that “It is imperative that if Korea is to attain independence, the will of the people against the Japanese domination be made known to the outer world”.
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Welcome to the latest edition of Korean Philately. This is a welcome return after many months impacted by the fallout from Covid and internal reorganization. All of that is now behind us and I am delighted to take over as Editor of KP. I am confident that we will resume our normal output of four […]
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In this article we continue the Korea Stamp Society’s (KSS) series on the Korea Christmas/Tuberculosis (TB) seals that began with information about the first seal issued in 1932 which was introduced by Dr. Sherwood Hall. The last previous article that highlighted the 1953 seal was published on the KSS website on July 29, 2020. The […]
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The KSS has published a new edition of the KSS magazine, Korean Philately, the second KP for 2022. As a member you can download this edition of Korean Philately for free as a PDF. And again, just as was the case with all four issues for 2020 and 2021 and the previous issue of 2022, […]
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The Korea Stamp Society’s (KSS) Board, after wide-ranging discussions with the membership, have decided to implement new guidelines for KSS membership starting on January 1, 2023. We have grown over the past four years from less than 40 members to over 400. During this period, we have not charged for KSS membership. The Board believes […]
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 2 December 2022 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a stamp titled “On the Orientation of the Building of Our Party in the New Era and the Tasks of the Central Cadres Training School of the Workers’ Party of Korea”.
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 2 December 2022 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a stamp titled “Successful Test-fire of Long-range Strategic Cruise Missiles”.
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 2 December 2022 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a stamp titled “In Commemoration of the 75th Anniv. of the Founding of the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School and Kang Pan Sok Revolutionary School”.
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In 1919 the Japanese introduced “Postage Fee Paid” forms. These forms were used to pay for various kinds of mail matter in bulk. The official Japanese postal term was 郵便料金受領証原符 = Postage fee reception original form and is imprinted on top. The actual mail items received a circular bisected handstamp in characters “(post office name)/postage […]
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 25 November 2022 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a stamp titled “Demonstration of Actuality, Militant Effectiveness and Actual War Capacities of the Nuclear Combat Forces of the State”.
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 25 November 2022 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a series titled “Ryonpho Greenhouse Farm”.
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The topic of the Plum Blossom Essay was last seen on the Korea Stamp Society webpage back on August 7, 2019 in an article by Gary McLean.
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Back in 2018 a short article was published that described South Korea’s unusual souvenir sheet (S/S) that was issued in 1966 for commemorating the 6th Postal Week. What is unusual about this S/S is that it was only issued with a red overprint. There was not a single stamp issued to accompany it. The S/S […]
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I started collecting the Postal Stationery of the DPRK as I had one or two clients who were buying North Korean postal history which was all but unobtainable in Western Europe in the 1980’s. After leaving Stanley Gibbons in 1992 to start ‘Carmichael & Todd’, I joined the KSC. I attended, with a stand, the […]
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 28 October 2022 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a series titled “The 7th Session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK”.
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Forward Note by Bob Finder: The following article by one of our members of the Korea Stamp Society (KSS) shows one of the key values of being a member of the KSS; that value is the gaining of new information about Korean philately from other members. With the collaboration of six different members of the […]
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