Korea Stamp Society

Reader’s Question: What was the use of this quarantine card?

August 5, 2020March 16, 2020 Ivo Spanjersberg14642 Comments

This document (shown here front and back) was for sale some time ago on Kobay, the Korean version of Ebay. I forgot to bid and didn’t see it again, so we have to make do with the photos from the auction.

Korean Military Advisor Correspondence (1955)

June 19, 2019December 9, 2018 Loc Nguyen Dai Hung1022Leave a Comment

(Translated by Le Tuyet Mai.) The envelope shown in Figure 1 was sent from the office of Korean Advisory Commander-Assistant to Lieutenant-Colonel, belonging to MC Advisory Team (KMAG-V Korean Military Advisory Group-Vietnam), belonging to APO 91 US Forces (Division: Foot-band no. 91- US Army) in Vietnam. The letter was postmarked Pungsan (Korea), 17-11-1955. Perhaps, this […]

ROK Blue Dragon cover

April 10, 2018December 9, 2018 Ivo Spanjersberg1236Leave a Comment

After contacting Andrew Crenshaw regarding the ROK White Horse cover he put several other military covers from the Vietnam era online. This cover is one of those, in this case from the ROK 2nd Marine Brigade (later Division), also known as the “Blue Dragon”, stationed in Vietnam from September 1965 onwards.

ROK White Horse Cover

March 18, 2018December 9, 2018 Ivo Spanjersberg1347Leave a Comment

In the past Andrew Crenshaw contacted the KSS regarding military covers from ROK soldiers sent from Vietnam during the Vietnam war. One example of these covers is shown here. It is a cover sent from Vietnam to Seoul, but something went wrong.