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The Korea Stamp Corporation (Korean: 조선우표사) is the issuing authority of postage stamps in North Korea. It is headquartered in the capital Pyongyang and has overseas offices in China (Beijing and Dandong) and Russia . [1] It printed its first stamps on 12 March 1946. It had created a total of 3,040 stamp designs by 1991. [2]
The identification page is made of polycarbonate in order to make it harder to forge. The colour of the cover of the ordinary passport has changed from green to navy blue. The bearer's personal ID number (Resident registration number of South Korea) is removed from the passport for greater security. The new passport was originally intended to ...
It was also used extensively for online identification purposes, but after 2013 resident registration number cannot be used for identification unless other laws require processing resident registration numbers. [1] Foreign nationals receive a foreign resident number (외국인등록번호) upon registration with the local immigration office.
Korea issued its own stamps on November 18, 1884, when the first postal service was created. 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 mun values were printed for the first time, but only the 5 and 10 mun stamps were issued.
The main job of KOMSCO is printing and minting the South Korean currency. Currently the 1000, 5000, 10,000, 50,000 KRW banknotes and the 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500 KRW coins are minted and printed by the currency plant of KOMSCO. Also, they produce all South Korean cheques, stamps, and passports.
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 ...
Philatelists' traditional method of identifying postage stamps uniquely has long been to number each country's stamps consecutively; Norway #1 is the 4-skilling blue stamp issued in 1855, and so forth.
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 ...