Supporting Philatelists Since 1952
After ten years since the first edition of this full color(!) catalogue of North Korean stamps, the third edition was published by the Korea Stamp Corporation, Pyongyang, in 2003. Chronologically, the first edition was published early in 1993, containing up to #3277, the winners of 25th Olympic Games, issued December, 1992, and consisted of the […]
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The design of the 2004 Lunar New Year stamp (Scott A1942, KSC4321) is adorable. A young boy and girl playing in Korean traditional clothing (Hanbok, or 한복) on Lunar New Year’s Day (Seollal or 설날), both relating to Korean culture. The design shows the political and economic changes in North Korea at the time (due […]
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A question from one of our KSS members: are these stamps real, fake, or a reprint? The stamps in this partial sheet were part of a batch of 1961 and earlier North Korean stamps. These 10 stamps (2×5) are from a sheet of 70 jeon 1959 “Peaceful Reunification of Korea” stamps (Scott 175a / A141; […]
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) Stamps were issued by the Korea Stamp Corporation to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the founding of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in 1948.
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) Vehicles are the main transportation means in the transport sector. The stamps show the vehicles manufactured by the Korean working class as the labour gifts of loyalty presented to the 7th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
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Mt. Myohyang Hotel, summer of 2003. I was doing my morning walk around the hotel lobby and saw the telephone booth lady putting out a display tray of stamps in the display cabinet. After she had finished displaying, she started to cut sheet stamps to individual stamps to replenish the display trays. This is when […]
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) A sheetlet was issued to mark the Praga 2018 Expo World Stamp Exhibition. The 70 won stamp shows a Papilio machon amurensis, the other 70 won stamp in the sheetlet the Phalaenopsis aphrodite.
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An introductory article about North Korean stamps was published in Stamp & Coin Mart (July 2018 edition). Written by Christ West it was introduced as: “As North and South Korea take tentative steps towards reconciliation, Chris West looks back on the history of the region and the stamps issued by one of the world’s last […]
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) A souvenir sheet was issued to show Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, leader of Indian independence movement. The stamp was printed on cloth-paper to mark the centenary of Gandhi’s Khadi Movement.
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) Four stamps and a souvenir sheet were issued to mark the FIFA World Cup which is to be held in Russia from June 14 to July 15 in 2018. 50 won stamp: Tackling 50 won stamp: Goalkeeping 50 won stamp: Kicking 50 won stamp: Dribbling 100 won stamp (souvenir […]
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) To commemorate the Changzhou 2018 18th All-China Philatelic Exhibition the Korea Stamp Corporation released a stamp sheet on May 11, 2018, showing two dinosaurs plus text referring to the stamp exhibition.
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) Sports play an important role in adding lustre to the prestige and honour of the country and nation, preparing the people into possessors of noble virtue, rock-hard will and good physique and inspiring them with national pride and dignity. At present the DPRK is seething with sports fever, thus […]
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) A sheetlet was issued to reflect the Korean animated film The Boy General. The film vividly shows the high sense of patriotism, noble virtue, and culture and customs including martial spirit cherished and displayed by the people in the period of Koguryo that was well-known as a powerful state […]
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) A souvenir sheet was issued on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of April 1948 Joint Conference of the Representatives of Political Parties and Public Organizations in North and South Korea.
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A few years ago, I was offered, for a few dollars, the upper cover shown here, the multiple franking (there are 17 more copies of the stamp on the reverse!) on 9 August 2002, reflecting the stellar inflation of the postage from the first of the month from 5chon to 3won, an increase of a […]
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After returning to his native country (PRC) to teach this past spring, one of my colleagues, Dr. Baiyin Yang, presented me with five folders of North Korean stamps. While all folders had the same cover (see Figure 1 for front cover, Figure 2 for back cover, and Figure 3 for inside cover), the stamps inside […]
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) A souvenir sheet was issued to mark the 25th anniversary of election of the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il as chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK.
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In 1997, I published privately in a limited edition of 150 copies the Catalogue of North Korean Postal Stationery 1947-1961. This has since been somewhat superseded by the DPRK publishing their own version of this catalogue, in the process of which they, let us say, inadvertently, stole much of my information, and, indeed, some of […]
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In the Korean Philately of August 2005 a short correspondence between Greg Todd and Robin Ko from Robin Philatelics was published. They corresponded regarding a version of a North Korean stamp sheet which Greg Todd had seen in an auction but which looked rather distinct.
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(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) Tea culture comprises such domains related to tea as cultivation of tea trees, processing of tea leaves, and production and using customs of tea cups and things for boiling.
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