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It was also in 1900 that the Korean Empire introduced a series of 13 stamps, with values ranging from 2 re to 2 won. These stamps are the first stamps printed in Korea and known to collectors as the "Plum Blossom stamps" because all the designs have a common theme of the plum blossom and taegeuk symbol.
The Korea Stamp Museum houses over 6,000 stamps, envelopes, and postcards. [13] In this collection, the museum contains relics from the ancient times and artifacts from the postal system established at the end of the Joseon dynasty, [14] as well as relics since the establishment of the North Korean Postal Service including the first stamps created by the service. [15]
Postage stamps are issued by the Korea Stamp Corporation. [1] North Korea issues copious amounts of stamps. [2] Since the 1970s, the country has outproduced South Korea in terms of issuance. [3] The stamps tend to portray patriotic and nationalist themes and are used as a form of propaganda, [4] but some of them have little connection with the ...
Bronze Korean seal, dated between 935 and 1392. The seal was first introduced to Korea in approximately 2nd century BC. The remaining oldest record of its usage in Korea is that kings of Buyeo used a royal seal (oksae; Korean: 옥새; Hanja: 玉璽) which bore the inscription of Seal of the King of Ye (예왕지인; 濊王之印).
Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects. It is an area of philately , which is the study (or combined study and collection) of stamps. It has been one of the world's most popular hobbies since the late nineteenth century with the rapid growth of the postal service , [ 1 ] as a stream of new stamps was produced ...
On September 12, 2018, before the September 2018 inter-Korean summit, Korea Post issued a stamp depicting both leaders of North and South Korea, commemorating the previous April 2018 inter-Korean summit and 2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit. This was the first time in Korean postal history the North Korean leader appeared on a ...
Overrun Countries stamps. The Overrun Countries series was a series of thirteen commemorative postage stamps, each of five-cent denomination, issued by the United States over a fifteen-month period in 1943 and 1944 as a tribute to thirteen nations overrun, occupied, and/or annexed by the Axis Powers during or shortly before World War II.
Passport stamps may occasionally take the form of sticker stamps, such as entry stamps from Japan, South Korea, and Sri Lanka. Depending on nationality, a visitor may not receive a stamp at all (unless specifically requested), such as an EU or EFTA citizen travelling to the Schengen Area, Albania, [citation not found] and North Macedonia. [1]