Supporting Philatelists Since 1952
(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 27 January 2023 KoreaPost issued a stamp commemorating the “100th anniversary of the death of patriot Kim Sangohk”. The stamp was also issued in a minisheet of 16 stamps of 430 won each. The stamps were printed by Cartor for POSA.
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One of our Korea Stamp Society members has the fortune to have in his collection a genuinely postally used postcard that was mailed just before the start of the Korean War in 1950. At the time of the purchase, our member did not realize the significance of the postcard; he was just interested in obtaining […]
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In 1956 the Korean National Tuberculosis Association would again issue a single Christmas/Tuberculosis (TB) seal. This seal was printed by lithograph on un-watermarked paper, both gummed and ungummed, and sold in sheets of 100 seals. The 1956 seal depicts three Hibiscus flowers. The sheets were sold as perforated 11. The seals were printed on both […]
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A problem which is very uncommon in most parts of the world is the Korean question of what to do with the fact that Koreans could use either (Korean) hangul or (Chinese) hanja characters when sending a telegram? While they can convey exactly the same message in Korean, the two writing systems are completely different […]
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KP for August, 1969, p75-77 discussed the Korean Revenue Stamp Issues of 1946-48 and reproduced the U.S. Military Government Ordinances Number 110 (14 Sept. 1946) and Number 171 (11 March 1948) which authorized the issue and use of these two series of stamps. A recent opportunity to examine full panes of these stamps has provided […]
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 1 January 2023 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a set of a stamp and a set of postal cards commemorating the “New Year Juche 112 (2023)”.
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