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Usage Of Recently Issued Commemoratives? (2)

September 5, 2018November 30, 2018 Ivo Spanjersberg1682 Comments

Recently when I bought some stamps from a Korean dealer through Ebay I received an envelope with some very recently issued commemoratives on it. This time the same seller went further and not only used the most recent stamps issued, but he actually created an FDC while doing so!

Korean First Flights

June 5, 2018October 20, 2018 Stanley Kim75Leave a Comment

Incheon International Airport in Korea is currently served by 70 airlines from all over the world. This is a far cry from a sole foreign flight by Northwest Airlines back in August, 1947. There have been many “first flights” by various airline carriers into and out of Seoul since then. However, leading up to the […]

“Welcome to My World”, First Ten Years (1969-1979) of Korean Airlines as a Civilian Carrier

May 21, 2018October 20, 2018 Stanley Kim97Leave a Comment

As a Korean Airlines jet takes off, Elvis Presley’s rendition of “Welcome to My World” was played in the background in an early Korean Airlines’ TV ad campaign. Korean Airlines’ World is the whole wide world now, but it wasn’t quite that wide in the beginning.

Korean FDC’s: “Trying to fill in the blanks”

February 7, 2018September 30, 2018 F. L. Korean64Leave a Comment

“Korea’s Special Souvenir Card for the Gold Medal Winners of the 1960 Olympics” was a neat little historical item in Korean Philately, (November 1997, page 8) contributed by KSS member Jack Kay. The article reminded me of an episode in my early Korean collecting-life.