Category: New Releases ROK

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 5 June 2019 KoreaPost released a series of 4 stamps showing protected marine species (해양보호생물). This is the second series on this subject, the first series was issued in July 2018.

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 30 May 2019 KoreaPost released ten stamps showing the “Kakao Friends” (“카카오프렌즈”). These are characters based on KakaoTalk emoticons released in November 2012 by Kakao.

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 20 May 2019 KoreaPost released a stamp to commemorate the “Redefinition of the SI Base Units”, the system which includes standards for such things as temperature and weight.

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 19 April 2019 KoreaPost released four stamps in the “Science in Korea” series. This is the 5th installment of that particular series of stamps showing Korean scientists and scholars of the past.

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 11 April 2019 KoreaPost released a stamp commemorating the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Provisional Government. The event commemorated with this stamp’s release is directly related to another event of 100 years ago, the March First Movement of 1919, also commemorated by a recent stamp release.

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 20 March 2019 KoreaPost released a serie of three stamps showing aircraft produced by Korean companies, such as the KT-1 jet trainer and the KAI T-50 Golden Eagle by Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI). 

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 15 March 2019 KoreaPost released a series of four stamps showing female independence activists. 

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 28 February 2019 KoreaPost released a stamp commemorating the March First Movement of 1919. Also known as the Sam-il (3-1) Movement (Hangul: 삼일 운동), this was one of the earliest public displays of Korean resistance during the rule of Korea by Japan from 1910 into 1919. 

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 19 February 2019 KoreaPost released a series of four stamps showing “the  world through a microscope” (현미경으로 본 세상). 

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 23 January 2019 KoreaPost released a series of five stamps showing the winning designs for the 2019 Korea Stamp Design Contest.