Supporting Philatelists Since 1952
News about Korean philately in general.
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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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A Dutch footballer famously once said approx. “you will only see it if you understand it“. This is true of Korean blogs as well: sometimes you really have to read on before you notice there is something important being said. Take a recent blog post on Korean National Tuberculosis Association’s Facebook page.
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POSA (the Korea Postal Service Agency / 한국우편사업진흥원) has released a series of lighthouse related graphics on the K-stamp Facebook page. The graphics show tourism related cancellations with Korean lighthouses shown in the cancellation. According to POSA “it’s a journey along the country’s lighthouses by tourist datestamp”.
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The 대한결핵협회 / Korean National Tuberculosis Association (KNTA), known for issuing the Korean Christmas seals since 1949, also published some materials related to both the March 1 movement of 1919, 80 years ago, as well as the 74th anniversary of Korean independence from Japan in 1945. That’s a lot of anniversaries in one sentence!
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It has been 74 years since Korea became independent in August 1945 after having been occupied by the Japanese empire since 1905/1910. This is something the Koreans understandably don’t want the world to forget of course and KoreaPost is part of that movement. Just a few days ago KoreaPost released quite a beautiful set of […]
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KoreaPost released a new campaign on safety. The campaign is related to the recent Tourism Series stamps and shows accidents waiting to happen on holiday. The campaign also comes with a new idea: put your name on these stamps.
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KoreaPost has release this month’s “wallpaper”, a set of graphics files which can be used as background on a computer or a smartphone. This month’s wallpaper is directly related to the theme of the next stamp release, which is the 5th annual tourism series titled “Must-visit Tourist Destinations for Koreans“.
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What surprises many stamps collectors who do not collect Korean stamps is the strong demand and high prices for the early Korean Dr. Hall (1932-1940) and post WWII late 1940’s to early 1950’s Tuberculosis (TB)/Christmas and New Year seals. Because of the Korean problem with TB and Dr. Sherwood Hall’s program to issue these seals […]
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KoreaPost has done some forward thinking here. You must have been in this situation: you’re in a foreign country, where you can’t (properly) speak the language. Now how to ask for stamps? And that special type of post service? We might have a guidebook, but how much technical (postal) language is there in such a […]
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KoreaPost has just released new promotional materials promoting stamp collecting as a hobby to Koreans. In the case of KSS members this is of course “preaching to the choir”, we all know what a great hobby philately is. However, KoreaPost is putting this on Facebook for possible newcomers to the hobby. The different images show […]
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For some time there has been no new issue news regarding DPRK stamp releases. The reason for this is very simple: the Korea Stamp Corporation, the stamp selling organization of the DPRK, didn’t release any new online news. However, the new issue leaflets do show three new stamps/series.
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KoreaPost release a new video on their YouTube channel. The video shows an artist creating professional style calligraphy on an envelope inspired by the 2018 “Post Culture Week” stamps. These stamps, released in October 2018, were meant to promote letter writing. The video shows how far this can be taken.
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KoreaPost created materials for the three new regular stamp values released on 1 July 2019. These materials come in two forms: the monthly “wallpaper” showing the latest high value stamp of 2180 won, while the other materials form a set showing all the new values.
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KoreaPost creates updates on Korean stamps for different social media platforms (both domestic/Korean and international) on an almost daily basis. One of the campaigns running at the moment is the one related to the new stamps showing the Kakao Friends characters.
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On 21 June 2019 KoreaPost released two stamps commemorating two Korean singers, Baek Seol-hee (1927-2010, born Kim Hee-suk) and Hyeon In (1919-2002, born Hyeon Dong-ju). The stamp are part of the “Modern Korean Figures” (현대한국인물) series. For this series KoreaPost has created extra materials showing the background of these two singers and their place in […]
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Unlike in most parts of Europe and North America in the Republic of Korea each year many thousands of young men are still being called up for their obligatory military service. Understandable, given that the DMZ is the most heavily fortified border in the world!
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It is always a good idea to have a look at the Kstamp website maintained by KoreaPost. Recently KoreaPost released a few documents aimed at children, to learn about stamps.
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With the abundance of stamp issuing entities spewing out hundreds of stamps yearly, you may wonder who or what decides what appears on their stamps? For example…
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