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Korean “digital revenue stamps”

February 17, 2018November 3, 2018 Ivo Spanjersberg1088Leave a Comment

On 1 January 2017 the last “paper” revenue stamps of the Republic of Korea (“South Korea”) were phased out. Except for the consular revenue stamps used outside of Korea the only type of revenue stamp now in use within the borders of Korea are meter marks. Meter mark versions of revenue stamps have been in […]

Asian Politics via Meter Stamp Slogans

February 8, 2018September 8, 2018 Rick Stambaugh (editing) and Ivo Spanjersberg (text)532Leave 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 […]