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(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 30 June 2023 KoreaPost issued a stamp issue commemorating the “25th World Scout Jamboree”. The stamp was also issued in a minisheet of 4 x 4 stamps (16), at 430 won each. The stamps were printed by Cartor for POSA.

During the closing year of WWII, a plan of establishing a four power trusteeship between the USA, the Soviet Union, China and the UK to rule Korea had been discussed between President Roosevelt and Marshal Stalin at Yalta in February 1945. This plan was supposed to eventually result in a united and independent Korea after […]

The Christmas Seal Committee of Korea (CSCK), under the leadership of Dr. Sherwood, who in 1932 had started the Korean program of issuing Christmas and New Year/Tuberculosis (TB) seals to raise funds to fight the spread of TB in Korea, issued in 1935 and 1936 promotional posters almost entirely written in the Korean language. These […]

The images below form an excerpt from my exhibit titled “Circular Datestamps at Japanese Offices in Korea (1876-1945),” which will be presented at NAPEX 2023 in McLean, Virginia on June 2-4, 2023.

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 13 June 2023 KoreaPost issued a stamp issue commemorating the 10th anniversary of the very popular K-Pop band BTS. The stamps were also issued in a series of minisheets and a stamp booklet. The stamps were printed by Cartor for POSA.

Senf Brothers The Brothers Senf (Gebr. Senf) of Leipzig/Germany operated a famous stamp shop from 1874 and had an “all world stationery service”. From 1892, they issued the Senf stamp catalogs. They also used a small guarantee mark “Gebr. Senf” on the reverse of postage stamps they offered.

The database of the National Archives of Korea can be a valuable resource for philatelists interested in the postal history of the 1945-1948 USAMGIK period in Korea. By utilizing the database effectively, a philatelist can gain insights into the postal system during this time, including stamp usage, design, and production, as well as the broader […]

In 1961 the Korean National Tuberculosis Association (KNTA) introduced a new format for multiple seals in the Christmas and New Year/TB seal series. There are four seals, two seals with different stylized trees and bird images, another has a stylized umbrella and the other shows drops of blood and TB crosses.

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 29 May 2023 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a set of stamps showing the “Magpie, National Bird of the DPRK”.

Well, with the latest Korean Postage Stamp Catalogue (KPSC) for 2022-2023, it is “Back to the Future” or as the saying goes: “Old is New Again”. With the help of a fellow Korea Stamp Society (KSS) member living in Korea, Tony Michell, I was finally able to obtain a copy of the 2022-2023 edition of […]

This cover is from M L Swinehart a missionary in Kwangju to an address in Virginia, USA dated to 1926.

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 19 May 2023 KoreaPost issued a stamp issue commemorating the “Honey Bee”. The stamps were also issued in a minisheet of 4 x 4 stamps (16), at 430 won each. The stamps were printed by Cartor for POSA.

The Korean Stamp Review was a quarterly magazine published in English from 1976 to 2014 by the Korean Philatelic Center and authorized by KoreaPost. Ivo Spanjersberg published an article about one of the issues on the Korea Stamp Society’s (KSS) website. At that time Ivo wrote that some issues were available online on the KoreaPost […]

The Korea Stamps Society (KSS) is pleased to the present the second article of Stewart Steres’ Series South Korea’s Commemorative Booklets. This article is about the EXPO’70 International Exhibition, held in Osaka, Japan, from March 15-September 13, 1970 in Osaka, Japan. It contains the 1970 South Korea KPSC 538, Scott 701, the 1967 first two […]

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 4 May 2023 KoreaPost issued a stamp issue commemorating “Pororo The Little Penguin”. The stamps were also issued in a minisheet of 4 x 4 stamps (16), at 430 won each. The stamps were printed by Cartor for POSA.

In 1960 the Korean National Tuberculosis Association (KNTA), following the previous two years, would again introduce multiple seals in the Christmas and New Year/TB seal series. There are two seals, one with stylized sun and clouds and other with a stylized pagoda and clouds. The 1960 seals were printed by lithograph on un-watermarked paper and […]

As a relatively new member of the Korea Stamp Society (KSS), I was attracted by the many articles about the images of Chollimas on stamps, especially of those of North Korea (DPRK) on the KSS website. The first article I noticed was posted on the KSS website on June 24, 2020.  I made the comment […]

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 20 April 2023 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a set of stamps showing “Fine Arts Works”.

In one of my boxes with all things related to Dr. Sherwood Hall’s Christmas and New Year/Tuberculosis seals, I found a copy of the English language Spring Issue of the “Korea Illustrated’ magazine from The Embassy of Korea issued in May, 1973 by the Korean Information Office in Washington, D.C. It has a good article […]

News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 15 April 2023 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a set of stamps commemorating “111th Birthday of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung”.

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 14 April 2023 KoreaPost issued a stamp issue commemorating “The Historic Architecture in Korea (Buddhist Mountain Monasteries)”. The stamps were also issued in a minisheet of 2 x 6 stamps (12), at 430 won each. The stamps were printed by Southern Colour Print for POSA.

One of the largest collectors of revenue stamps worldwide was Joe Ross. It is unknown how many stamps from how many countries and organizations he owned, but he had a LOT of revenue stamps and documents with revenue stamps on them in his collection. Unfortunately he passed away a couple of years ago, but in […]

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 7 April 2023 KoreaPost issued a stamp issue commemorating “Danuri, Korea’s first lunar orbiter”. The stamp was also issued in a minisheet of 4 x 4 stamps (16), at 430 won each. The stamps were printed by Cartor for POSA.

In 1959 the Korean National Tuberculosis Association (KNTA), following 1959’s example, would again introduce multiple seals in the Christmas and New Year/TB seal series. There are two seals, one with a girl in a holiday dress and the other showing a boy in holiday dress. There were two different seal printings, one with lighter shades […]

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 […]

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 30 March 2023 KoreaPost issued a stamp issue showing a “Folding Screen with the Ten Longevity Symbols”. The stamps were also issued in a minisheet of 2 x 10 stamps (16) and seals (4; see left and right in sheet), the stamps being 430 won each. The stamps were […]

Beginning with this first article by Stewart Steres, a Korea Stamp Society (KSS) Director, on the “Postage Stamps of Korean Folkways” booklet, the KSS is proud to showcase Stewart’s extensive collection of what he calls “South Korean Commemorative and Yearbook” booklets of South Korea over the coming issues of Korean Philately.

Once in a while we report on the KSS website on interesting items showing up in stamp auctions worldwide. Here are some of these items from the last few months from Cherrystone Auctions, Auktionshaus Christoph Gärtner and Chiswick Auctions, plus some Ebay items related to the Korean War.

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 24 March 2023 KoreaPost issued a stamp issue commemorating “Korean Musicals”. The stamps were also issued in a minisheet of 2 x 6 stamps of 430 won each. The stamps were printed by Cartor for POSA.

A career choice brought me and my Korean stamp collection that I started 30 years ago, back to the ROK. Korea certainly has changed in numerous positive and interesting ways but much like the US, the pastime of stamp collecting seems to have lost some of its appeal to technology.

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 22 March 2023 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a set of stamps showing “Natural Monuments”.

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 20 March 2023 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a set of stamps commemorating the “Military Parade Held in Celebration of the 75th Founding Anniversary of the Korean People’s Army”.

An article on the basic introduction of the use of Japanese postcards through 1946 by South Korea, ended with the issuance of the South Korea’s first own design of a postcard with the unissued 1946 “Liberation” postcard , Korean Postage Stamp Catalogue (KPSC) UPC1; and with that postcard’s first surcharge of May 1, 1947, KPSC […]

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 15 March 2023 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a stamp commemorating “Pyongyang Soju, the National Liquor of the DPRK”.

In 1958 the Korean National Tuberculosis Association would introduce the first multiple seals in the Christmas/TB seal series. There are two seals, each with a hand with a green sprout coming out of the hand. Other than the fact that there were two different seal images, there are few varieties of this seal known to […]

Once in a while we report on the KSS website on interesting items showing up in stamp auctions worldwide. Here are some of these items from the last few months from Cherrystone Auctions, Corinphila Veilingen, AAK Phila GmbH and Auktionshaus Christoph Gärtner.

Most collectors of South Korean stamps are familiar with the 1946 set of Japanese stamps overprinted for use in US-occupied South Korea and revalued in Korean currency, i.e. cheon. These are listed in the Korean Postage Stamp Catalogue (KPSC) as numbers R1-R6 and in Scott as numbers 55-60. They were issued some months after the […]

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 22 February 2023 KoreaPost issued a stamp issue commemorating “Repatriated Cultural Heritage”. The stamps were also issued in a minisheet of 4 x 4 stamps of 430 won each. The stamps were printed by Royal Johan Enschedé for POSA.

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 17 February 2023 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a set of seven souvenir sheets and a sheetlet commemorating the “Successful Test Launch of the New-type ICBM Hwasongpho-17”.

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 16 February 2023 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a set of four stamps and a souvenir sheet commemorating the “81st Birthday of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il”.