Supporting Philatelists Since 1952
In 1964 the Korean National Tuberculosis Association (KNTA), following 1961-1963’s examples, would again introduce multiple seals with four different designs in the Christmas and New Year/TB seal series. Unlike in 1963, the KNTA did not use different colors for the different seal designs. All four seals for 1964 have what appears to be a stylized […]
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The Korea Stamps Society (KSS) is pleased to the present the fourth article of Stewart Steres’ series of South Korea’s Commemorative Booklets. This article is about Korean grown fruits. (NOTE: The album says 1975 although the stamps inside were all issued in 1974).
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 17 August 2023 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a set of stamps commemorating the “National Inter-Provincial Games-2023”.
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In the year 1947, the relationship between North and South Korea was fraught with tension and uncertainty. The two countries had been divided since the end of World War II, and efforts to reunify the peninsula had been met with resistance and hostility from both sides. At the same time South Korea was a nation […]
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(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 14 August 2023 KoreaPost issued a stamp issue commemorating “Foreign Advocates for Korean Independence”. 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.
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I think I have to qualify this with the phrase “at the moment” because like some collectors my passion changes according to chance discoveries and predilections, the money in my pocket and time available. This note records collecting interests between October and December 2022. I am not the distinguished collector who grinds away at a […]
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In 1963 the Korean National Tuberculosis Association (KNTA), following 1961-1962’s examples, would again introduce multiple seals with four different designs in the Christmas and New Year/TB seal series. But the KNTA would throw in a new “wrinkle” with the issuing of the four different designs in two types of sheets with different colors, so there […]
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