In 1989 the Korean National Tuberculosis Association (KNTA) seal program used 15 fifteen different images for the 1989 Christmas and TB seals. In a similar format as used for the 1988 Christmas seal, there are sheets of fifty seals with forty seals per sheet with four blocks of ten of images, and a middle row consisting of ten seals of two sets of five other images. The seals depict nostalgic Korean customs. Also issued was a souvenir sheet of ten seals with one set of ten of the images.
The 2022 Korea Postage Stamp Catalogue (KPSC) gives the catalogue numbers for the 1989 seals as TCS 238-247 for the ten different images that are in four blocks within the sheet. The middle horizontal row has two sets of five seals which the KPSC gives the numbers of TSC 238A-247A. The KPSC values the set of ten seals at 5,000 won (US$3.80) and 12,000 won (US$9.15) for the middle set of five. The KPSC catalogue number for the souvenir sheet of ten is TSC 247a and it is valued at 5000 won (US$3.80).
In 1989, the production by the KNTA of the Christmas/TB seals, increased over the previous year to the amount of 26,000,000 seals. The author does not know the number of the 1989 seals that was sold. The price of each seal remained the same as the previous year, 100 won. With the printed numbers known to have increased, the author believes that it is most likely that another record year was set for the amount of the funds generated by seal sales for fighting TB by the KNTA. The author does not know if the seals in the souvenir sheet were counted in the production figures.
The author has seen two types of the sheets of fifty seals of TCS 238-247. Both are shown in this article, the first is called a Type 1 sheet, which is a sheet which has colour guide markings on the bottom margin. And there is another sheet, Type 2, with color guide markings on the top margin of the sheet. For the souvenir sheet, the author has only seen one type, as shown in this article. There are probably more different types of the souvenir sheet.
The author does have a 1989 folder, also depicted in this article, which contained the seals in a pocket in which the seals are placed, but does not have an envelope, if one was used for the 1989 seals. There was also a promotional sheetlet which is shown in this article. The number of the folders printed increased from 15,000 in 1988 to 17,000 in 1989.
