Supporting Philatelists Since 1952
When the new KSS website was launched, I wrote an article about a number of Korean stamps I had been searching fo, that I was never able to find. There is an article titled “Do these Korean stamps actually exist?” that was published on November 30, 2018.
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 24 June 2022 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a set of stamps and souvenir sheets commemorating the “Military Parade Held in Celebration of the 90th Founding Anniversary of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army”.
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(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 24 June 2022 KoreaPost issued a stamp issue commemorating “Cheonsang Yeolcha Bunyajido (Sky Map)”. The stamps were also issued in a minisheet of 7 stamps, at 430 won each. The stamps were printed by Royal Johan Enschedé for POSA.
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Recently there was a very unusual amount of bidding on group of Korean Empire stamps on eBay that had around nine different bidders with the winning bid at $1200. This set of stamps was brought to the attention of the Korea Stamp Society (KSS) by a reader of the website with three days left in […]
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Occasionally South Korean stamps show up on popular (stamp) auction websites with a 10 won overprint on them. But are these overprints real? According to John Sauer in his Monograph 1, Specialized Postal Stationery Catalog of the Republic of Korea, page 7, postal card KPC #PC15 was created with a 10 won surcharge on the […]
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(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 14 June 2022 KoreaPost issued a stamp issue commemorating “Charitable Blood Donation”. The stamp was also issued in a minisheet of 12 stamps, at 430 won each. The stamps were printed by Cartor for POSA.
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(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 3 June 2022 KoreaPost issued a stamp issue commemorating “Endangered Species Saved from Extinction”. The stamps were also issued in a minisheet of 4 x 4 stamps (16), at 430 won each. The stamps were printed by Royal Johan Enschedé for POSA.
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In 1976, the DPRK released several souvenir sheets that differ (within the same catalog number) from each other. Differences in size, perforation, presence of glue, etc. can be found. The information in catalogs is somewhat different. The most notable example would be the Souvenir Sheet for release: Winners, 21st Olympic Games, Montreal.
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