Thursday, April 24, 2025

Local Revenue Stamps

Incheon local revenue stamps (1964)

I (Matt Parkkinen) made a state-side trip in September, to Seattle, and since my return have been too busy and also have not had an opportunity to add much in the way of information on Korean revenues, until just the other day. A few days ago I was in Pusan, and obtained some of the […]

Behind the stamp (Paju local revenue stamp)

Highway 1 leads northward from Seoul to Kaesong and then to P’yong-yang, connecting two ancient capitals of Korea with the modern one. A few miles from the Seoul city limits, a smaller road leads east towards Uijong-bu, and about two miles from Highway 1 there is a narrow gravel road headed north, up the steep […]

Consular Revenue Stamps

Korean consular revenue stamps: documents from 1960s showing the “new won” series

The 1960s new won series of consular revenue stamps show up in several documents from that era. Two examples of such documents are shown here. 

Korean consular revenue stamps: IEF dollar series

This listing is an addendum to the article “Consular Revenue Stamps of the Republic of Korea” in The American Revenuer, Third Quarter 2017 (Vol. 70, No. 3). For the full article contact the American Revenue Association through their website: http://www.revenuer.org/ IEF dollar values High quality dollar values (two flowers in the design) Low quality dollar […]

Education Revenue Stamps

Revenue stamped document: Masan middle school graduation certificate

From the collection of Joe Ross, well-known amongst revenue stamp collectors as someone with one of the largest revenue stamp collections in the world and author of several revenue stamp catalogues, comes this revenue stamped document from the city of Masan (마산), now part of Changwon (창원시). Unlike with postal documents, revenue documents are usually […]

Court Fee Revenue Stamps

Korean Narrow Gauge

Revisiting the Suin Line: Television Chronicles of a Bygone Railway

The Suin Line (수인선, 水仁線) was a 52 km narrow-gauge railway connecting Suwon and Incheon in South Korea. Opened on August 5, 1937, by the Chōsen Gyeongdong Railway, it primarily transported salt from the Sorae area. In 1942, the Chōsen Railway acquired the line, and following Korea’s liberation in 1945, it was nationalized under the […]

The Suwon – Inchon narrow gauge line: The line within Suwon city

The shortest stretch of the SuIn line was inside Suwon city. This ran from the Suwon railway station to the south, after which it would run up a ramp to cross both a main street and the main (standard gauge) railway line. The only remaining part of this part of the line, the part on […]

Books and catalogues

Revenue stamps of Iran 3rd Edition

Several well-known members of the revenue/fiscal stamp community pointed out that a new edition of the “Revenue Stamps of Iran” catalog had been published. This edition, the third, is larger than ever, with “742 full color pages with pictures of every stamp and many new rare documents”. The two volumes show many different types of […]

National Revenue Stamps

Revenue stamps published 30 years apart used on the same day

Recently seen on Ebay (and purchased by the well-known revenue stamp collector Joe Ross): two South Korean documents with tax stamps. In itself, both stamps and the type of document are not particularly special: both stamps were easily available at the counter in South Korea until at least 2014, and unlike many types of documents […]

Korean “digital revenue stamps”

(Text originally published in MSS Quarterly Bulletin Nr. 316.) 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 […]

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We continue the story of the Chollimas on North Korea stamps with additional different stamps depicting a Chollima somewhere within the stamp’s design. The stamps described in this Part 4 article cover the stamps issued by North Korea depicting the Chollima on stamps from the years of 1970 to the end of 1972. There was […] The post The Number of Chollimas on Stamps Grows,Grows and Grows!—Part 4 appeared first on Korea Stamp Society. [...]

(News from 우정사업본부 / KoreaPost) On 18 April 2025 KoreaPost issued a stamp issue celebrating “Masters of Korean Modern Craft”. The stamps were issued in a sheet of 15 (3×5) stamps of 430 won. The stamps were printed by Royal Johan Enschedé for POSA. KoreaPost released the following text (note: computer translation by ChatGPT from […] The post KPC3805-3807: Masters of Korean Modern Craft appeared first on Korea Stamp Society. [...]

The year 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Korea and Grenada, established on August 1, 1974, shortly after Grenada gained independence from Britain. These diplomatic ties were formed during the tenure of Sir Eric Gairy, Grenada’s first Prime Minister, often referred to as the “Father of the Nation” for […] The post 50 Years of Diplomatic Relations: FDCs for Joint Stamp Issue Between Korea and Grenada appeared first on Korea Stamp Society. [...]

(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 15 April 2025 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a set of stamps commemorating the “113th Birthday of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung”. The KSC released the following English language text for this issue: The State Stamp Bureau of the DPRK issued two stamps to mark […] The post KSC7193-7194: 113th Birthday of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung appeared first on Korea Stamp Society. [...]

Fifty years ago, in 1975, Spain commemorated its 125th anniversary of stamp issuance by hosting the World Stamp Exhibition “ESPANA 75” from April 4th to 13th in its capital city, Madrid. Today, such exhibitions typically last about five or six days, yet this event remarkably lasted double that duration—ten days. This particular exhibition holds significant […] The post Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Korea’s FIP Membership – Tracing the Footsteps of Madrid, Spain, 1975 appeared first on Korea Stamp Society. [...]

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