Ivo Spanjersberg, Author at Korea Stamp Society

KPC3476: 50th Anniversary of KAIST

February 16, 2021March 24, 2021 Ivo Spanjersberg454Leave a Comment

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 16 February 2021 KoreaPost issued a stamp commemorating the 50th anniversary of KAIST. KAIST (formerly the “Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology”) is a national research university located in Daedeok Innopolis, Daejeon, South Korea. KAIST was established by the Korean government in 1971 as the nation’s first public, […]

KSC5320: 79th Birthday of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il

February 16, 2021February 15, 2021 Ivo Spanjersberg354Leave a Comment

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 16 February 2021 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a stamp “to mark the 79th birthday of the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il. The stamp reflects Chairman Kim Jong Il’s birthplace in the Paektusan Secret Camp and Jong Il Peak.”

Photos for 1960s editions of Korean Philately

February 13, 2021March 5, 2021 Ivo Spanjersberg3171 Comment

In the 1960s and for several decades afterwards David Phillips often wrote for Korean Philately magazine as well as being for some time the publisher of KP. He was also a producer of many philatelic publications including some of the best philatelic publications on Korea. This was at a time when next to nothing was […]

How Stalin and Mao disappeared from the map of Pyongyang

January 30, 2021March 5, 2021 Ivo Spanjersberg5654 Comments

After the Second World War quite a few cities in Western democracies had a “Stalin Street”. At the time this was quite understandable: the Soviet Union had from 1941 been an important ally against Nazi Germany. However, these streets disappeared overnight when the Soviet army invaded Hungary in 1956. The Stalinlaan in Amsterdam for instance […]

KPC3473-3475: Geostationary Korea Multi Purpose Satellite GEO-KOMPSAT, Cheollian

January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 Ivo Spanjersberg442Leave a Comment

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 21 January 2021 KoreaPost issued a set of stamps showing the “Geostationary Korea Multi Purpose Satellite GEO-KOMPSAT”, also named the “Cheollian”. The KOMPSAT or Korean Multi-Purpose Satellite is a series of South Korean multipurpose satellite for reconnaissance, communication, meteorological, environmental, agricultural and oceanographic monitoring applications.

KSC5316-5319: Plants

January 20, 2021March 6, 2021 Ivo Spanjersberg344Leave a Comment

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 20 January 2021 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a set of stamps showing plants. The plants on the stamps, such as the Osmunda japonica and the Helianthus annuus, are all indigenous to the Korean peninsula. The set of four stamps come in the same value, 50 (DPRK) […]

Korean Philately Vol. 57 No. 1 (Q1 2021)

January 1, 2021February 4, 2021 Ivo Spanjersberg8112 Comments

The KSS has published a new edition of the KSS magazine, Korean Philately, the first KP for 2021! As a member you can download this edition of Korean Philately for free as a PDF. And again, just as was the case with all four issues for 2020, you can own a full-colour magazine-style hard-copy version […]

Postal cards issued for 70th anniversary of Korean War

December 30, 2020December 27, 2020 Ivo Spanjersberg389Leave a Comment

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 30 December 2020 KoreaPost issued a set of four postal cards to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. The cards show several types of imagery, including medals and war artists’ drawings. The cards come in two distinctly different designs, one with a large image […]

KSC5300-5314: Military Parade Held in Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of Founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea

December 20, 2020February 15, 2021 Ivo Spanjersberg410Leave a Comment

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 20 December 2020 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a series of stamps titled “Military Parade Held in Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of Founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea”. As the KSC describes them, these “stamps were issued to reflect the military parade held in celebration […]

KPC3471-3472: Korea-Russia Joint Issue

December 15, 2020January 4, 2021 Ivo Spanjersberg642Leave a Comment

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 15 December 2020 KoreaPost issued a set of stamps jointly issued with Russia. Both stamps show bears, one for Russia (the Ursus arctos arctos) and one for Korea (the Ursus thibetanus ussuricus). The Ussuri black bear (Ursus thibetanus ussuricus), also known as the Manchurian black bear, is a large […]

KSC5295-5298: Historical Remains

December 12, 2020November 29, 2020 Ivo Spanjersberg4791 Comment

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 10 December 2020 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a series of stamps showing “historical remains of the Korean nation” such as several bronze works.

Post-war reconstruction of South Korea through 1973 tourism stamp

December 9, 2020June 5, 2020 Ivo Spanjersberg466Leave a Comment

After the Korean War for well over a decade the economic development of South Korea was at a stand still. The country was considered an economic “basket case”. However, during Park Chung-hee’s reign the country began to grow rapidly. One visible effect were the many newly constructed roads and bridges, which featured a lot on […]

Postal cards for 2020 “National Stamp Exhibition” issued

December 4, 2020December 1, 2020 Ivo Spanjersberg643Leave a Comment

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 4 December 2020 KoreaPost issued a set of four postal cards to commemorate the 2020 National Stamp Exhibition (2020 전국우표전시회). These cards are the first new postal cards issued by KoreaPost in 2020, the most recent (previous) issue was for the 2019 stamp exhibition. Due to the corona virus […]

KPC3469-3470: New Year’s Greetings (Year of the Ox)

December 1, 2020December 11, 2020 Ivo Spanjersberg9571 Comment

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 1 December 2020 KoreaPost issued a set of 2 stamps for New Year 2021. This particular stamp series is an annual event, a tradition which KoreaPost has maintained for many decades now. The year 2021 will be the Year of the Ox (note: not the cow!).

KPC3465-3468: Philately Week

November 20, 2020November 22, 2020 Ivo Spanjersberg782Leave a Comment

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 20 November 2020 KoreaPost issued a series of stamps commemorating philatelic week in Korea. This is a yearly returning stamp series, which in different forms (for instance as “postal week”) has been around since the 1960s. The four stamps have all sorts of themes. KSC3465 is “when spring comes […]

KSC5299: Let us advance vigorously towards the Eighth Party Congress by making the flames of the 80-day campaign flare up!

November 17, 2020November 29, 2020 Ivo Spanjersberg729Leave a Comment

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 17 November 2020 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a stamp commemorating the 19th meeting of the Political Bureau. The KSC stated: “The 19th meeting of the Political Bureau of the Seventh Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea made a crucial decision to wage an 80-day […]

KSC5291-5294: Natural History Museum

November 12, 2020November 29, 2020 Ivo Spanjersberg5662 Comments

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 12 November 2020 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a series of stamps and maxicards showing the Natural History Museum and several prehistoric animals.

KPC3464: The 100th Anniversary of the Victory at the Battle of Cheongsanri

October 21, 2020October 21, 2020 Ivo Spanjersberg756Leave a Comment

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 21 October 2020 KoreaPost issued a stamp commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Victory at the Battle of Cheongsanri. This battle, more commonly known for the Chinese name of the same location as the Battle of Qingshanli, was fought over six days in October 1920 between the Imperial Japanese […]

KSC5286-5290: 75th Anniv. of Founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea

October 10, 2020October 1, 2020 Ivo Spanjersberg810Leave a Comment

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 10 October 2020 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a series of stamps and cards to commemorate the “75th Anniv. of Founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea“. The KSC states “The WPK founded by the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung has strengthened and developed into an […]

KPC3462-3463: UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (Ssireum)

October 8, 2020October 21, 2020 Ivo Spanjersberg7102 Comments

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 8 October 2020 KoreaPost issued a series of stamps commemorating the Korean sport of Ssireum (씨름), a form of wrestling. “Ssireum is a traditional folk game and sport of Korea in which two people, each grabbing the satba (belt made of long cotton cloth) wrapped around the other contestant’s […]