Supporting Philatelists Since 1952
The KSS has published a new edition of the KSS magazine, Korean Philately, the first KP for 2026. This edition of KP is about Brebner, one of the main printers of Korean stamps, the Korean War meeting at the Royal Philatelic Society London, and the Danish Jutlandia stamp issue. As a member you can download […]
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The KSS has published a new edition of the KSS magazine, Korean Philately, the third KP for 2025. This edition of KP is a special on PhilaKorea, the international stamp exhibition held once in a decade in Seoul. As a member you can download this edition of Korean Philately for free as a PDF. And […]
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The KSS has published a new edition of the KSS magazine, Korean Philately, the second KP for 2025. This edition of KP is about Korean folklore and stamp variations. As a member you can download this edition of Korean Philately for free as a PDF. And again, just as is the case with all issues […]
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The fourth Christmas and New Year stamps issued by Korea were released December 15, 1960. They are a 15 hwan, ochre, bluish gray and dark brown, a 25 hwan, red, green and purplish blue, a 30 hwan, yellow, red and bluish purple; lithographed, impression 22 mm x 25 mm, perf. 13, granite paper, watermarked, sheets […]
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The KSS has published a new edition of the KSS magazine, Korean Philately, the first KP for 2025. This edition of KP is all about the Korean Philatelic Federation, the KPF, which in 2024 existed for 40 years. As a member you can download this edition of Korean Philately, all 92 pages of it, for […]
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As members already know who frequent the Korea Stamp Society’s (KSS) website, my favourite area of philately is all things concerning the Korea Christmas/TB seals. I especially enjoy researching and collecting the Korean seals issued during the Japanese occupation of Korea. This time period was when Dr. Sherwood Hall issued Korea’s first Christmas/TB seals in […]
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The KSS has published a new edition of the KSS magazine, Korean Philately, the third KP for 2024. As a member you can download this edition of Korean Philately, all 80 pages of it, for free as a PDF. And again, just as is the case with all issues for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and […]
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One of our members, Darrin Lettinga, received a message from Kenneth James Bryson from the ISJP, which read: “I have had an inquiry from a JP (Japanese Philately) reader about a marking on a cover that was sent within the US expeditionary force in Siberia in 1919. It has some Hangul on it, and I […]
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On a warm summer day in Seoul in June 2024, I had the distinct honor of representing the Korea Stamp Society (KSS) in a pivotal meeting with the Korean Philatelic Federation (KPF). The rendezvous took place on the tenth floor of the iconic Gwanghwamun Post Office, a fitting location steeped in postal history since 1906. […]
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The KSS has published a new edition of the KSS magazine, Korean Philately, the second KP for 2024. As a member you can download this edition of Korean Philately, all 80 pages of it, for free as a PDF. And again, just as is the case with all issues for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and […]
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The KSS has published a new edition of the KSS magazine, Korean Philately, the first KP for 2024, and the biggest edition of KP ever! As a member you can download this edition of Korean Philately, all 104 pages of it, for free as a PDF. And again, just as is the case with all […]
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This month marks the 6th anniversary of the most recent iteration of the Korean Stamp Society (KSS), probably the 5th or 6th iteration of the KSS depending on how you would like to count. Started in late 1951, the KSS went through its very first crisis within a year, but managed to survive. During the […]
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The KSS has published a new edition of the KSS magazine, Korean Philately, the second KP for 2023. As a member you can download this edition of Korean Philately for free as a PDF. And again, just as is the case with all issues for 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, you can own a full-colour […]
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The KSS has published a new edition of the KSS magazine, Korean Philately, the first KP for 2023. As a member you can download this edition of Korean Philately for free as a PDF. And again, just as is the case with all issues for 2020, 2021 and 2022, you can own a full-colour magazine-style […]
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I became interested in South Korean stamps in the 1960’s. I especially liked the cute small sheets that came with most of their stamps. I really liked the prices as most of the stamps cost 9-10 cents each and the sheets were 12-15 cents each. As my interest grew I wanted to get the earlier […]
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The KSS has published a new edition of the KSS magazine, Korean Philately, the second KP for 2022. As a member you can download this edition of Korean Philately for free as a PDF. And again, just as was the case with all four issues for 2020 and 2021 and the previous issue of 2022, […]
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I started collecting the Postal Stationery of the DPRK as I had one or two clients who were buying North Korean postal history which was all but unobtainable in Western Europe in the 1980’s. After leaving Stanley Gibbons in 1992 to start ‘Carmichael & Todd’, I joined the KSC. I attended, with a stand, the […]
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It seems like only yesterday when I first learned of the Society. As I began collecting, two older established dealers suggested I focus on collecting stamps of the group of countries often identified as “U.S. Possessions”. Bright and colourful, the cost of many of them in that era was perfect for a beginning but enthusiastic […]
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The KSS has published a new edition of the KSS magazine, Korean Philately, the first KP for 2022. As a member you can download this edition of Korean Philately for free as a PDF. And again, just as was the case with all four issues for 2020 and 2021, you can own a full-colour magazine-style […]
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I have been asked to share my journey to becoming Editor Emeritus of Korean Philately, and I’m happy to do so. I became a stamp collector at age 8 when living in London, Ontario, Canada. My cubmaster was a stamp collector and thought that I should become one, as well. He had a stamp album […]
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