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Study of Meter Franking Stamps in Korea

February 8, 2018August 21, 2019 Ivo Spanjersberg1515Leave a Comment

The handbook and catalogue 한국우편요금계기인 or “Study of Meter Franking Stamps in Korea” was published by the 부산우취회 / Busan Philatelic Club in 1996 on the 40th anniversary of the founding of the BPC. Besides approx. 40 pages of explanations and introductions the handbook contains numerous pictures of individual meter marks and accompanying slogans, spread out over 288 […]

Asian Politics via Meter Stamp Slogans

February 8, 2018September 8, 2018 Rick Stambaugh (editing) and Ivo Spanjersberg (text)1420Leave a Comment

(Text originally published in MSS Quarterly Bulletin Nr. 314.) Shown here are two Republic of Korea (South Korea) Post Office meter stamps from 2005 with pictorial propaganda slogans. The top slogan is a map of the Sea of Japan (or East Sea as the Koreans call it) with a circle around the Dokdo Islands in the […]