General Philatelic News Archives — Korea Stamp Society

KoreaPost releases stamp publication schedule for 2020

January 9, 2020January 9, 2020 Ivo Spanjersberg100Leave a Comment

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) KoreaPost released the 2020 publication schedule, showing all planned new stamp issues for the whole year. Several anniversaries are on the list and so are both the Korean culture and history related issues as well as Korean independence related stamps.

KPC3427-3434: Promotional materials for series

December 31, 2019December 29, 2019 KSS Korea Philately Editor83Leave a Comment

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) KoreaPost has released promotional materials for the recent stamp issue titled “Science and Technology that Lead Korea” (KPC3427-3434). These materials were published on both the KoreaPost Facebook page as well as the Kstamp blog. The materials are available in Korean only.

Overprinted Taegeuk stamps on newspapers: interesting or curiosities?

December 20, 2019December 10, 2019 KSS Korea Philately Editor1121 Comment

One way of acquiring new items for a stamp collection is by buying them on online auction websites. There are many great items available online, but also many fakes. But what is real and what isn’t? Also, even if real, not everything is as important or interesting as it might be described by the seller […]

PostNews shows New Year 2020 greeting cards

November 24, 2019November 20, 2019 KSS Korea Philately Editor601Leave a Comment

PostNews, one of the websites maintained in the KoreaPost family of postal websites, released images of the series of New Year greetings cards for 2020. The (Chinese/Korean) year 2020, starting on January 25 2020, is the Year of the (Metal) Rat. Several of the cards therefore show a rat/mouse, but other images are available.

Illustrator of 2019 Christmas seals interviewed

October 27, 2019October 27, 2019 Ivo Spanjersberg2381 Comment

The Korean National Tuberculosis Association interviewed the illustrator who created this year’s Christmas seals, Ahn Sol (안솔). The seals show the Haenyeo (해녀) of Jeju island, the women who dive for seafood around the coast of the island. Ahn Sol created the artwork for the seals while staying for a couple of months on the […]

The 2019 Christmas seals have been released!

October 15, 2019October 25, 2019 KSS Korea Philately Editor3252 Comments

The new Christmas seals for Christmas 2019 have been released by the Korea National Tuberculosis Association. The stamps feature Jeju island and the famous local diving women, the “haenyeo”. The sheet is for sale online through the KNTA website and costs 3.000 won (approx. 2,50 dollars / 2,30 EUR).

KoreaPost commemorates 100 years of independence movement

September 11, 2019July 16, 2019 KSS Korea Philately Editor276Leave a Comment

KoreaPost is calling upon Koreans to remember all things related to the “independence for Korea” movement. Because many of the people and symbols related to the struggle for independence have been featured on stamps KoreaPost can show a lot of examples from the past. It’s all in Korean, but even without any knowledge of Korean […]

KNTA shows Sherwood Hall’s turtle ship drawing

September 7, 2019August 19, 2019 KSS Korea Philately Editor4491 Comment

In a recent blog post the 대한결핵협회 / Korean National Tuberculosis Association (KNTA) shows Sherwood Hall’s turtle ship drawing, which was a subject proposed for his first Christmas seals. In the end this idea was not used and another seal was released. Interestingly this version of the drawing is slightly different from the one in […]

Another Strong Market Result for A Korean Christmas/TB Seals

August 31, 2019August 31, 2019 Robert Finder262Leave a Comment

I had just written about the very strong market for the rare Korean Christmas and TB seal on August 4, 2019 with two 1953 sheets selling for around $2000 each on eBay. Now a pair of the very rare unissued Dr. Hall 1940 seal has just sold for US$2600. One of the pair was damaged […]

Stamp Museum Exhibition: “Taegeukgi in History” (10 Aug. – 29 Sept.)

August 27, 2019August 25, 2019 Ivo Spanjersberg5032 Comments

If you happen to be in Seoul in the next month and wondering what to do as philatelist: why not visit the special exhibition on the Taegeukgi? The Korean Stamp Museum released images showing their newest exhibit which coincides with the new stamp series issued by KoreaPost on the same theme.