Korea Stamp Society

Return to Dr. Hall’s Woodblock Print Cards from 1934-1940

September 28, 2022May 17, 2022 Robert (Bob) Finder1982 Comments

Last year on August 25, 2021, the author published an article on the Korea Stamp Society’s (KSS) webpage about Dr. Sherwood Hall’s woodblock print cards from 1934-1940, that were sold/given along with the Christmas/New Year’s and Tuberculosis (TB) seals. Since that time the author has been fortunate to find a complete set of the 7 […]

KSC5425: 10th Anniv. of Promulgation of Decree of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK on the Enforcement of the Universal 12-year Compulsory Education

September 25, 2022February 23, 2023 KP Online Editor44Leave a Comment

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 25 September 2022 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a series titled “KSC5425: 10th Anniv. of Promulgation of Decree of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK on the Enforcement of the Universal 12-year Compulsory Education”.

KSC5426-5429: National Meeting of Reviewing Emergency Anti-epidemic Work

September 23, 2022February 23, 2023 KP Online Editor43Leave a Comment

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 23 September 2022 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a series titled “National Meeting of Reviewing Emergency Anti-epidemic Work”.

KPC3616-3617: Philately Week

September 22, 2022April 13, 2023 KP Online Editor38Leave a Comment

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 7 April 2023 KoreaPost issued a stamp issue commemorating “Danuri, Korea’s first lunar orbiter”. The stamps were also issued in a minisheet of 4 x 4 stamps (16), at 430 won each. The stamps were printed by Cartor for POSA.

DPRK Philately has many secrets and mysteries

September 21, 2022May 1, 2022 Alexander Shaposhnikov2791 Comment

I have been collecting stamps from North Korea for about 30 years and I can say that the philately of this country has many secrets and mysteries. The main catalogs (Scott, Michel, and Stanley Gibbons (SG)) do not provide complete and reliable information. The catalog printed in the DPRK gives distorted price information. Yes, this […]

KPC3614-3615: Traditional Korean Games

September 15, 2022April 13, 2023 KP Online Editor28Leave a Comment

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 15 September 2022 KoreaPost issued a stamp issue commemorating “Traditional Korean Games”. The stamps were also issued in a minisheet of 4 x 4 stamps (16), at 430 won each. The stamps were printed by Cartor for POSA.

Stamp issues for 2023 already proposed (but you could still stop them)

September 14, 2022July 29, 2022 KP Online Editor308Leave a Comment

Depending on the laws of a specific land which stamps to publish is decided upon in all sorts of ways. In some countries the government (usually through a ministry) decides what which stamps to issue, in other countries it is the postal authority or the postal services themselves. In Germany for instance the Ministry of […]

Stamps, Nationalism and Political Transitions

September 7, 2022September 1, 2022 James H. Grayson238Leave a Comment

The academic publishers Routledge has just published a new book edited by Prof. Stanley D. Brunn of the University of Kentucky on the subject of stamps as a source for documentary research on political trends, changes and transitions. Stanley Brunn, along with Jack Child and David Scott, has been among the leading Anglophone scholars to […]

KSC5424: International Tiger Conservation Forum

September 5, 2022February 23, 2023 KP Online Editor68Leave a Comment

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 5 September 2022 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a set titled “International Tiger Conservation Forum”.