Supporting Philatelists Since 1952
The October 2026 issue of Woopyo offers a particularly broad cross-section of the Korea Philatelic Federation’s activities and collecting interests. Its centre of gravity is firmly in Korean postal history and traditional philately: Korean War military mail, the production and delivery of Korea’s first stamps, the provisional overprints of the immediate post-Liberation period, Japanese postal […]
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(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 8 October 2026 KoreaPost issued a stamp commemorating “World Maritime Day”. The stamps were issued in a sheet of 16 stamps of 500 won each. The stamps were printed by Brebner Print for POSA.
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In 2001 the Korean National Tuberculosis Association (KNTA)’s Christmas and New Year/TB seal program, following the tradition of promoting awareness and raising funds for the fight against tuberculosis, issued two different small sheets of ten seals, in a souvenir sheet format, plus a larger sheet of twenty seals.
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A group of North Korean covers and postal stationery offered as lots 2957–2976 in the Christoph Gärtner 66th Auction provides a compact view of postal use during the first years of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The material is varied: ordinary inland letters, registered mail, air mail, foreign destinations, postal stationery and a small […]
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(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 1 October 2026 KoreaPost issued a stamp commemorating “Dancheong Korean Traditional Multicolored Paintwork”. The stamps were issued in a sheet of 18 (3×6) stamps of 500 won each. The stamps were printed by Cartor for POSA.
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