Per-Olof Jönsson, Author at Korea Stamp Society

The story behind the 2010 dinosaur overprint issue

January 18, 2020November 17, 2019 Per-Olof Jönsson1095Leave a Comment

For the International Youth Stamps Collectors’ Exhibition Europhila 2010 on October 2-3, 2010 in Stockholm, the KSC agreed to issue a special overprinted exhibition sheetlet as well as one overprinted postcard and one overprinted entire. Organizer of the Europhila Expo was the Swedish Stamp Youth, the Stockholm district, SFU. 25 children and youth from Belgium, […]

KSC5231: 60th Anniv of Repatriation of the Korean Residents in Japan

December 16, 2019November 16, 2019 Per-Olof Jönsson1403Leave a Comment

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The Korea Stamp Corporation has issued a stamp commemorating the first ship from Japan arriving in the DPRK with the first group of Koreans who were at the time residents in Japan. Together with the stamp the KSC also issued a postcard showing the ship in much greater […]

KSC5230: Cultural Remains of Korea

December 6, 2019November 16, 2019 Per-Olof Jönsson1003Leave a Comment

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The Korea Stamp Corporation has issued a series of four stamps portraying “cultural remains of the Korean nation” such as a “Pipha-shaped dagger and narrowshaped brass dagger” and an “Oxidized-copper incense burner at the Singye Temple”.

KSC5228-5229: Folk Customs of the Korean Nation

December 1, 2019November 14, 2019 Per-Olof Jönsson1115Leave a Comment

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The Korea Stamp Corporation has published a stamp series showing “Folk Customs of the Korean Nation”.

KSC5224-5227: Korean Folk Customs

November 22, 2019November 14, 2019 Per-Olof Jönsson1265Leave a Comment

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The Korea Stamp Corporation has published a stamp series showing Korean folk customs from “the period of the feudal Joson dynasty” and Koguryo.

KSC5223A: Centenary of Founding of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

November 20, 2019November 14, 2019 Per-Olof Jönsson1236Leave a Comment

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The Korea Stamp Corporation has issued a souvenir sheet to mark the centenary of the founding of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The stamps show Henry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross, plus several situations showing examples of activities of the Red […]

The story about how a new stamp issue was created

October 21, 2019October 22, 2019 Per-Olof Jönsson1351Leave a Comment

In August 2016, I contacted my then contact person in Korea Stamp Corporation, the North Korean state stamp agency, KSC, Moscow branch. I knew him since the Nordia 2005 Stamp Expo in Gothenburg. We had already co-operated 4 times before, in 2008, 2010 and 2015, in issuing special North Korean stamps.

The North Korean Provisional Surcharged Stamps 2002

September 15, 2019October 22, 2019 Per-Olof Jönsson185113 Comments

Democratic Peoples’ Republic Korea (DPRK, North Korea) changed the face value of stamps under a new postage order from August 1 Juche 91 (2002). The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications of the DPRK took a measure that those previously issued 91 postage stamps were overprinted with the new denomination to be used for a certain […]

KSC5215K: Singpex 2019 36th Asian International Stamp Exhibition

July 31, 2019September 14, 2019 Per-Olof Jönsson11492 Comments

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The Korea Stamp Corporation has issued a souvenir sheet to mark “Singpex 2019 36th Asian International Stamp Exhibition” which was held in Singapore.

KSC5215J: Lake Chon on Mount Paektu

July 29, 2019September 15, 2019 Per-Olof Jönsson1819Leave a Comment

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The Korea Stamp Corporation has issued a stamp to show Mount Paektu, an ancestral sacred mountain of Korean Revolution. The mountain, on which the revolutionary traditions of the country struck their root deep, instils the revolutionary spirit of Paektu, the spirit of blizzards of Paektu, in the Korea […]

KSC5215C-5215D Visit to Russian Federation Made by Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the WPK, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and Supreme Commander of the DPRK Armed Forces

June 7, 2019September 15, 2019 Per-Olof Jönsson999Leave a Comment

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The Korea Stamp Corporation has issued a stamp and a souvenir sheets to commemorate the Visit to the Russian Federation by Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and Supreme Commander of the DPRK […]

KSC5215A-5215B On Socialist Construction and the Internal and External Policies of the Government of the Republic at the Present Stage

June 1, 2019September 15, 2019 Per-Olof Jönsson1180Leave a Comment

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The Korea Stamp Corporation has issued two souvenir sheets with both one stamp each reflecting the main idea of the policy delivered by Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un a the First Session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK on April 12 Juche 108 (2019).

KSC5215: Our national flag

May 28, 2019September 15, 2019 Per-Olof Jönsson1002Leave a Comment

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The Korea Stamp Corporation has issued a souvenir sheet with one stamp to reflect the lyrics and music of song “Our National Flag”.

KSC5213-5214: 80th Anniversary of the Victorious Battles in the Musan Area

May 5, 2019September 15, 2019 Per-Olof Jönsson1141Leave a Comment

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On May 5 2019 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued one stamp and a souvenir sheetlet to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Victorious Battles in the Musan Area between May 22 and 23 Juche 28 (1939), under, it is said, the leadership of the great leader Comrade Kim […]

The North Korean “Victory in the Korean War” withdrawn stamp set (KSC5173B-5173D)

July 27, 2018February 13, 2021 Per-Olof Jönsson14553 Comments

On July 27 Juche 107 (2018) Korea Stamp Corporation issued a set with 2 stamps at 10 and 30 won and a souvenir sheet at 70 won to commemorate the 65th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War, the DPRK recognized naming for the Korean War, which ended 27 July 1953.