Supporting Philatelists Since 1952
In 1965 the Korean National Tuberculosis Association (KNTA), following 1961-1964’s examples, would again introduce multiple seals with four different designs in the Christmas and New Year/TB seals series. All four seals for 1965 depicted stylized fauna, one with a dear, another with a peacock, a third with mandarin ducks and the fourth with cranes. These […]
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The KSS has published a new edition of the KSS magazine, Korean Philately, the second KP for 2023. As a member you can download this edition of Korean Philately for free as a PDF. And again, just as is the case with all issues for 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, you can own a full-colour […]
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(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 21 September 2023 KoreaPost issued a stamp issue commemorating “Philately Week”. The stamps were also issued in a minisheet of 4 x 4 (16) stamps at 430 won each. The stamps were printed by Royal Joh. Enschedé for POSA.
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The Korea Stamps Society (KSS) is pleased to the present the fifth article of Stewart Steres’ Series South Korea’s Commemorative Booklets. This article is about the 10th Anniversary of the opening of the Seoul Tower.
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(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 14 September 2023 KoreaPost issued a stamp issue commemorating “UNESCO Intagible Cultural Heritage (Ganggangsullae)”. The stamps were also issued in a minisheet of 10 stamps at 430 won each. The stamps were printed by Southern Colour Print for POSA.
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In line with agreements regarding the planned post-WW2 dismantling of the Japanese Empire reached by the allies at the Yalta Conference in February 1945, Japan would be forced to relinquish control of all the territories it had conquered during the war or annexed prior to the outbreak of hostilities (including Korea). Korea would be divided […]
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(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 9 September 2023 KoreaPost issued a joint stamp issue commemorating the link between Korea and Switzerland. 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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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 9 September 2023 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a set of stamps commemorating the “75th Anniv. of Founding of the DPRK”.
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The cover discussed in the article is from Mrs. C. N. Weems, a Methodist missionary in Wŏnsan, Korea in 1934.
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