Author: Jo Pieters

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 18 October 2018 the 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation issued a stamp commemorating the fourth round of the north-south summit meeting. The release came with this text: “Stamps were issued to commemorate the fifth round of north-south summit meeting and talks held in Pyongyang between September 18 […]

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 18 October 2018 the 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation issued a stamp commemorating the fourth round of the north-south summit meeting. The release came with this text: “The fourth round of north-south summit meeting and talks took place at the Thongil House in the northern area of […]

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 16 October 2018 the 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation issued a stamp sheet commemorating the third round of north-south summit meeting. The release came with this text: “The third round of north-south summit meeting and talks took place at the House of Peace in the southern area […]

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 15 October 2018 the 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation issued four stamps commemorating famous Korean personalities. These are Yang Man Chun, Choe Mu Son, Nam Ee and Paek Son Haeng.

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) Stamps were issued to show the grand mass gymnastics and artistic performance The Glorious Country in celebration of the 70th founding anniversary of the DPRK. The grand mass gymnastics and artistic performance impressively shows the immortal revolutionary exploits performed by President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il, […]

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) Vehicles are the main transportation means in the transport sector. The stamps show the vehicles manufactured by the Korean working class as the labour gifts of loyalty presented to the 7th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea.  

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) A sheetlet was issued to mark the Praga 2018 Expo World Stamp Exhibition. The 70 won stamp shows a Papilio machon amurensis, the other 70 won stamp in the sheetlet the Phalaenopsis aphrodite. 

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) A souvenir sheet was issued to show Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, leader of Indian independence movement. The stamp was printed on cloth-paper to mark the centenary of Gandhi’s Khadi Movement. 

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) Four stamps and a souvenir sheet were issued to mark the FIFA World Cup which is to be held in Russia from June 14 to July 15 in 2018. 50 won stamp: Tackling 50 won stamp: Goalkeeping 50 won stamp: Kicking 50 won stamp: Dribbling 100 won stamp (souvenir […]

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) To commemorate the Changzhou 2018 18th All-China Philatelic Exhibition the Korea Stamp Corporation released a stamp sheet on May 11, 2018, showing two dinosaurs plus text referring to the stamp exhibition. 

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) Sports play an important role in adding lustre to the prestige and honour of the country and nation, preparing the people into possessors of noble virtue, rock-hard will and good physique and inspiring them with national pride and dignity. At present the DPRK is seething with sports fever, thus […]

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) A sheetlet was issued to reflect the Korean animated film The Boy General. The film vividly shows the high sense of patriotism, noble virtue, and culture and customs including martial spirit cherished and displayed by the people in the period of Koguryo that was well-known as a powerful state […]

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) A souvenir sheet was issued on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of April 1948 Joint Conference of the Representatives of Political Parties and Public Organizations in North and South Korea. 

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, paid an unofficial visit to China from March 25 to 28 at the invitation of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party […]

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) The State Stamp Bureau of the DPRK has issued the stamps showing Samjiyon Grand Monument reflecting the exploits of anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle performed by the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung on the occasion of the Day of the Sun.