The 100th Anniversary of Korean Cartoon - June 2, 2009



The year 2009 is meaningful in that it is the 100th anniversary of the Korean cartoon.

On June 2, 1909, Daehanhyeophwoi (Korea Association), one of several Anti-Japanese Social Associations, published the cartoons of Lee Do Yeong (1884∼1933) which touched upon current issues on the first page of the first edition of 『Daehanminbo』, a daily which used both Korean and Chinese characters. This marked the first page of the history of Korea’s cartoon.

Since then, in the gloomy history of modern Korea where Korea’s restoration of independence from Japan was followed by Korea being divided into two countries and by cruel dictatorships, cartoons became the messenger of both dreams and hopes, and the sharp tongue that criticized and satirized the absurdity of reality. And in those times when there were no proper pastimes, the cartoon imparted a tiny bit of enjoyment into a dreary life. Though once estranged as a subculture, the cartoon is now positioned as an important contents across the cultural industry such as movies, dramas, games, studies, advertisements, etc.

Believing in the power of the Korean cartoon that has grown splendidly for the past 100 years, we anticipate that it, sometimes with humor that enables us to curl up and other times with pithy satire, will remain, even a hundred years later, as a source of the enjoyment in our everyday lives and a momentary respite from our tough life.

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Korean cartoon, a commemorative stamp is issued, featuring such recollective cartoons as “Mr. Gobau” by KIM Seong-Hwan, “Run, Hany” by LEE Jin-Ju, “Little Dino Dooly” by KIM Soo-Jeong, “Mengkkongi Village School” by YOON Seung-Un, and “Robot Zzibba” by SHIN Moon-Soo.

Title: The 100th Anniversary of Korean Cartoon Commemorative Stamp
Types: 1
Date of Issue: June 2, 2009
Quantity: 1.6 million stamps
Denomination: 250 won
Design: Recollective cartoons; “Mr. Gobau,” “Run, Hany,” “Little Dino Dooly,” “Mengkkongi Village School,” “Robot Zzibba”
Stamp No.: 2677
Printing Process and Colors: Offset, seven colors
Size of Stamp: 40mm×30mm
Image Area: 40mm×30mm
Perforation: 13
Sheet Composition: 4 × 4 (230mm×147mm)
Paper: White Unwatermarked
Designer: Jiwon MO
Printer: Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation

The 60th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Korea and Philippines - March 3, 2009



2009 is a meaningful year that celebrates the 60th anniversary of Korea forming diplomatic ties with the Philippines. The Philippines is a friendly nation that sent more than 7,000 soldiers, as a part of the UN forces, to Korea during the Korean War. Korea and the Philippines have solidified their relations on the basis of goodwill and friendship in diverse areas. Celebrating the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations formed between Korea and the Philippines, new stamps are issued jointly with the Philippines Post, which features Korea’s “Sonori (Cow Play) in Hangawi” and the Philippines’ “Panagbenga Flower Festival.”

“Sonori (Cow Play) in Hangawi”
Hangawi (Chuseok) that falls on the 15th of August by the lunar calendar is one of the biggest national holidays in Korea, when people celebrate the year’s good harvest and observe worship service to family ancestors. At this time, when newly harvested grains and fruits are abundant, as indicated in the saying “May every day be neither more nor less than Hangawi!”, the Sonori is performed. To the tune of cheerful musical instruments of the farmer’s band, two people put on straw mats shaped like a cow and visit door to door, wishing for a year of good harvest and peace and tranquility.

Panagbenga Flower Festival in the Philippines
Panagbenga Flower Festival is held for a month every February at Baguio, the Philippines’ summer capital. Following a spectacular car festooned with floral decorations, for which this festival is known, dancers and the citizens who decorate themselves with flowers march through the streets, playing cheerful music.

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New Year's Greetings - December 1, 2008



The year 2009 is the Year of the Ox.

In Korea, the ox has long been regarded as much more than simple livestock and being considered a family member. Being strong, simple, honest, and sincere, the ox has been very important laborer indispensable for the farming. Such natural dispositions of the ox have well matched our people’s temperament. So, our ancestors have valued and loved the characteristics of the ox.

In Seonnongje (rite of worship where people prayed for a good autumn harvest) held during the Joseon Dynasty, the ox was used as a sacrificial offering. After the worship was concluded, people stewed the ox and had a feast. This became the origin of the “Seolleongtang” (a type of beef soup with rice). There also was “Sonorigut” (Dances and Plays as a Masquerade of an Ox) where people fashioned straw and straw mats into the shape of an ox and took it around the village, praying for a good autumn harvest. Noblemen rode on the ox as a display of defiance against the powers or matters of the mundane world. This customs has been passed down to present time in the form of poetry and pictures.

It is hoped that in 2009, all will enjoy a sincere, diligent and prosperous life, just as the ox does. The stamp is printed with photostorage ink and the white-colored portions (the ox’s head, body, tail and snow flakes) glow in the dark.

Extreme Sports Series (3rd) - September 5, 2008


Title: Extreme Sports Series (3rd)
Types: 4
Date of Issue: September 5, 2008
Quantity: 600,000 stamps each
Denomination: 250 won
Design: Snowboard (Carving turn, Indy grab, Nose grab, Air)
Stamp No.: 2638 ~ 2641
Photogravure, five colors: Photogravure, four colors (self-adhesive stamp)
Size of Stamp: 30mm x 40mm
Image Area: 27mm x 37mm
Perforation: 13
Sheet Composition: 4 × 4(four stamps setenant, 150㎜ × 210㎜)
Paper: White Unwatermarked
Designer: PARK, Eunkyung
Printer: Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation

Snowboarding is featured as the third installment in the Extreme Sports series.

Snowboarding is a sport that requires riding a long plank-shaped board down a snowy slope that enables spinning and remarkable maneuvers. Snowboarding is seen as having sprung from “Snurfer” (a compound word combining “snow” and “surfer”) -- a kind of toy made for his daughter by Sherman Poppen from U.S. in 1965. It is said that Snurfer was so popular at the time that even Snurfer contests were held. In snowboarding, where the board and boots are fastened with binding, a kind of fixing device, there are two different types: “alpine style” and “free style.”

Snowboarding, which has a relatively short history, has come into the spotlight as a people’s world winter sports since it was selected as an official sport event in the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympic Games. In Korea, snowboarding started in the early 1990s, rapidly spreading through the Internet, and great snowboarding competitors contending for glory on the world stage are now being produced.

The new stamp features such snowboarding technique as Carving turn, Indy grab, Nose grab, Air, etc.

14th World ARDF Championships - September 2, 2008


Title: 14th World ARDF Championships
Types: 1
Date of Issue: September 2, 2008
Quantity: 1.6 million stamps
Denomination: 250 won
Design: Player and foxgun
Stamp No.: 2637
Photogravure, five colors: Offset, four colors
Size of Stamp: 26mm x 36mm
Image Area: 23mm x 33mm
Perforation: 13
Sheet Composition: 4 × 5(140㎜ × 216㎜)
Paper: White Unwatermarked
Designer: SHIN, Jaeyong
Printer: Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation

The 14th World ARDF Championships will be held from September 2 to 7, 2008, in Hwaseong City, Gyeonggi-do.

ARDF (Amateur Radio Direction Finding), which indicates locating radio’s direction, is a type of leports (leisure/sports) for amateur radio operators. In the competition, contestants compete to find the 5 radio senders hidden in the hillocks within a 6 to 10㎞ radius by using a wave receiver (called foxgun), map, and compass. The competitor who finds the most in the shortest amount of time within the pre-determined time limit is recognized as the winner. In about 160 countries across the world, there are a total of 3 million amateur radio operators, who enjoy this hobby through the Morse code-based telecommunication or voice telecommunication. The ARDF contest is just another variety that has newly emerged in the field of amateur radio operation. The ARDF competition, which allows contestants to hone their mind and body and saves lives during disasters, is providing a new type of enjoyment among existing amateur radio operators. In Korea, there are about 200,000 amateur radio operators, with the number of Koreans participating in ARDF competitions steadily increasing. The World ARDF Championships, which was first held in 1980, is held every 2 years under the auspices of IARU (International Amateur Radio Union). More than 450 participants from around 30 countries will draw together for this 14th round of the ARDF Championships.

A new stamp is issued to commemorate the 14th round of the World ARDF Championships. It is hoped that this competition will provide a momentum to stimulate public interest and participation in amateur radio.

Seoul Waterworks Centennial - September 1, 2008


Title: Seoul Waterworks Centennial
Types: 1
Date of Issue: September 1, 2008
Quantity: 1.6 million stamps
Denomination: 250 won
Design: Arisu, Seoul’s tap water
Stamp No.: 2636
Photogravure, five colors: Offset, six colors
Size of Stamp: 26mm x 36mm
Image Area: 26mm x 33mm
Perforation: 13
Sheet Composition: 4 × 5 (140㎜ × 2 13㎜)
Paper: White Unwatermarked
Designer: KIM, Sojeong
Printer: Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation

The year 2008 marks the 100th anniversary of the introduction of modern water supply system into Seoul.

At the end of 19th century, with the opening of Korea to foreign influences, both natives and foreigners flowed into cities, sharply driving up the volume of the urban population. Water from wells and rivers, which were then used as water for sustenance, proved insufficient to supply this growing population. Moreover, such waterborne epidemics such as cholera spread increasing the need to address the issue of hygiene. To tackle these issues, King Gojong in 1903 granted H. Collbran from the U.S. and H. R. Bostwick from England the right to install and operate water supply facilities, spurring the construction of the modern water supply facilities. After two years of construction works, water collection and treatment plants were built and water pipes were laid. As the Ddookdo water treatment plant was completed at a site which is now in Seongsu-dong, Seongdong-gu, Seoul city, 12,500㎥ water started to be supplied to 125,000 residents living within Seoul’s 4 gates and around the Yongsan area on September 1, 1908. This marks the beginning of the history of modern water supply system in Seoul. With the construction of this modern water supply system, numerous innovative changes were adopted: it not only provided water, but also prevented waterborne epidemics, reduced losses caused by fires and facilitated industrial activities. From then on, Seoul’s water supply system has been developed dramatically. As of the end of 2007, the volume of water production at six water treatment centers per day totalled 5.1 million ㎥, with the water-supplied population reaching 10.42 million. This is an immense quantitative growth from 1908, compared to which, water production volume increased 408 fold and water-supplied population, 84 fold. Under the brand name of “Arisu,” Seoul’s water supply system pursues the creation of new value, while at the same time, providing 10 million Seoul citizens with clean, safe and high-quality tap water through the Arisu quality certification system and introduction of increasingly advanced water treatment systems.

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of construction of Seoul water supply system, a new stamp is issued. It is hoped that all Seoulites can live a healthy and rich life through clean and safe water, and that we, who are living in a “water-stressed” country, can practice water conservation and live our daily lives with the spirit of loving and valuing water.

Centennial of the Korean Language Society - August 29, 2008


Title: Centennial of the Korean Language Society
Types: 1
Date of Issue: August 29, 2008
Quantity: 1.6 million stamps
Denomination: 250 won
Design: “Hannara Mal” written by Ju Sigyeong
Stamp No.: 2635
Photogravure, five colors: Photogravure, six colors
Size of Stamp: 50mm x 22mm
Image Area: 50mm x 22mm
Perforation: 13
Sheet Composition: 4 × 5 (230㎜ × 145㎜)
Paper: White Unwatermarked
Designer: SHIN, Jaeyong
Printer: Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation

“Its language defines a country. If its language ascends, the country also rises and if its language descends, the country plummets. Therefore, all nations must take particular care in maintaining and upgrading their languages. The alphabet is the database that delineates a language: Only when the alphabet assumes a good posture without waning and endures firmly, can it preserve the language” - quote from -Hannara Mal- written by Ju Sigyeong.

On August 31, 1908, Hangeul Hakhoe (The Korean Language Society) was established by Ju Sigyeong and others to systematically study our language and alphabet to counter the decline of Daehan Jeguk’s (Korean Empire) national prestige. Hangeul Hakhoe was at the time called Gugeoyeongu Hak-hoe (Korean language Research Society) and later changed to “Baedal Malgeul-modeum,” “Hangeulmo,” “Joseoneo Yeongu-hoe,” “Joseoneo Hakhoe” and finally into today’s Hangeul Hakhoe.

Over the past 100 years, Hangeul Hakhoe has diligently strived to safeguard, study, and disseminate the Korean language and alphabet. It established the “Hangeul (Korean Alphabet) Day” in 1926. In the 1930s, it established “Hangeul orthography” and foreign language orthography, deliberated on and systemized the standard Korean language, based on which, 『Keunsajeon』, our people’s first large-scale dictionary, was compiled and published. During such efforts, the members of the Hangeul Hakhoe were jailed, tortured, and even killed in prison by Japanese colonial rulers. Immediately after the restoration of Korea’s independence from Japanese colonial rule, Hangeul Hakhoe exerted special efforts to nurture Korean language teachers, compile school textbooks, and exorcise the remnants of the Japanese language. Afterwards, it steadily conducted activities designed to sustain policies to uphold the Korean language and alphabet and to use our language and alphabet correctly.

A new stamp is issued, commemorating these accomplishments of Hangeul Hakhoe over the past 100 years. The organization has consistently been committed to safeguarding and cultivating our language and alphabet - the very spirit and symbol of the Korean people. The new stamp features the work of calligrapher Seo Huihwan who quoted and wrote parts of -Hannara Mal- written by Ju Sigyeong.

The 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic of Korea
- August 14, 2008


Title: The 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic of Korea
Types: 1
Date of Issue: August 14, 2008
Quantity: 1.6 million stamps
Denomination: 250 won
Design: Emblem and Korea
Stamp No.: 2634
Photogravure, five colors: Photogravure, five colors
Size of Stamp: 30mm x 40mm
Image Area: 30mm x 40mm
Perforation: 13
Sheet Composition: 4 × 4(147㎜ × 200㎜)
Paper: White Unwatermarked
Designer: LEE, Gi-seok
Printer: Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation

The year 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Korea.

On August 15, 1948, the Republic of Korea was liberated from 36 years of ruthless Japanese colonial rule and established its own government. However, the elation of the newly found freedom was fleeting as the Korean war split the Korean people into two countries. Amidst the frustration and anguish of having lost everything, Korea became the poorest country in the world. Our fathers and mothers endured times of tears mixed with blood and sweat in the paddy fields and dry fields, industrial sites, and far-away foreign lands, in order to spare their children from famine. Our president developed economic development plans and our people participated in the Saemaeul Movement (the new community movement). And in the midst of political chaos, our people stood up against dictatorship, sacrificed their precious lives and achieved democratization. The world called our rapid growth and development, which was unprecedented anywhere else in the world, “‘Miracle on the Han River.” We also overcame the IMF economic crisis through a gold collection campaign participated in by most people of the nation.

Now, we have emerged as one of the dozen strongest economies in the world able to manufacture the world’s best semiconductors and ships. Moreover, we became a beautiful country where the 50 million Korean people became one to create the “legend of Korean national football team crossing the threshold into the World Cup semi-finals” and where numerous Korean people volunteered to clean up the muddle from the Taean oil spill accident. The proud name that allows us to sense an indescribable feeling of pride is The Republic of Korea. We believe in our people’s underlying potential. And we are secure in our belief that our inexorable journey towards becoming a world-class country has just begun.

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Games of the XXIX Olympiad - August 8, 2008



Title: Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Types: 1
Date of Issue: August 8, 2008
Quantity: 1.6 million stamps
Denomination: 250 won
Design: Temple of Heaven & Gymnastics
Stamp No.: 2633
Photogravure, five colors: Photogravure, six colors
Size of Stamp: 36mm x 26mm
Image Area: 36mm x 26mm
Perforation: 13
Sheet Composition: 5 x 4(216㎜ x 140㎜)
Paper: White Unwatermarked
Designer: ROH, Junghwa
Printer: Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation

The 29th Olympic Game will be held from August 8 to August 24, 2008 in Beijing, the capital and the center of China’s history, political affairs and culture.

Beijing Olympic Games, under the slogan of “One World, One Dream,” is conveying the message that despite different skin colors, languages and ethnicity, the entire world shares the allure and joy of the Olympic Games, pursuing mankind’s ideal toward peace, and that all people belong to and share the same world as well as the same desires and dreams. As the third Olympic Game held in Asia after the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Game and the 1988 Seoul Olympic Game, this Beijing Olympic Game will see 10,500 athletes from 205 countries compete, in good faith and on their and their fatherland’s honor, in 28 events such as swimming, field and track, soccer, gymnastics, table tennis, boat racing, and Taekwondo.

Wishing for a successful Beijing Olympic Game, a new stamp is issued. This new stamp features “gymnastics,” one of the events held in the Olympic Game, “Temple of Heaven” -- a representative relic of Beijing -- an alter where the emperor performed ancestral rites to the heaven, and the Beijing Olympic’s emblem, “Chinese seal, Dancing Beijing”. The margins of the stamp sheet features Beijing Olympic’s official mascots: Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, and Nini that embody Fish, Panda, Olympic Flame, Tibetan Antelope and Swallow, respectively.

Philately Week Special - August 7, 2008


Title: Philately Week Special
Types: 2
Date of Issue: August 7, 2008
Quantity: One million stamps each (S/S 320,000 sheets)
Denomination: 250 won (S/S 500 won)
Design: “40th anniversary of Emperor Kojong’s enthronement commemorative stamp”, “Overprint definitive stamp (14 Won, Cheomseongdae)”
Stamp No.: 2631 ~ 2632
Photogravure, five colors: Photogravure, five colors (photochromic stamp)
Size of Stamp: 65mm x 35mm (triangle stamp)
Image Area: 55mm x 30mm
Perforation: 13
Sheet Composition: 5 × 4(two stamps setenant, 210㎜ × 170㎜)
Paper: White Unwatermarked
Designer: LEE, Giseok
Printer: Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation

A Gift for VIP members of the Post Office.

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Definitive Postage Stamp - June 30, 2008


With the launching of the new government (Feb. 25, 2008), Korea Post which was part of the Ministry of Information and Communication is now under the Ministry of Knowledge Economy. To mark this change, the current 250 KRW stamp featuring a brown hawk owl will be replaced by one featuring a Euryale ferox Salisb. This new stamp is produced as a self-adhesive stamp, to facilitate the convenience of stamp users.

The beautiful, purple Euryale ferox Salisb. is a lonely plant being the only species and genus that exists in the entire world. When the little tiny bud sprouts, large leaves spring up from its roots. Then, a flower stalk comes forth, from where a mysterious, purple colored flower blossoms. There are thorns all over the plant except on its petals. The leaves grow up to reach 20 cm to 2m, with their rumpled surface showing a lustrous hue. Even though Euryale ferox Salisb. is a yearly plant, there are times when they can’t be seen every year due to their “alternate year bearing.” Its flower that blossoms during July and August opens up in the daytime but closes down at night, making its admirers miss them even more. Being a plant that grows naturally only in the East Asian region, it is found in old reservoirs or ponds in Korea. Protected as an endangered wild plant, it is regarded as a rare plant all across the world.

The 100th Birthday of Patriot Yun Bong-Gil - June 20, 2008


“I braced myself for this: in one’s youth, the love for one’s country is stronger and more resolute. It surpasses the love for parents, for brothers and sisters, even the love for wife and children. I was determined to leave this way, even at the sacrifice of my life, my fatherland’s rivers and mountains as well as my parents.” ? in the letter sent by Patriot Yun Bong-Gil on October 18, 1930, from Quingdao, China.

Born on June 21, 1908, during the Japanese colonial rule, at Yesan, Chungcheongnam-do province, Yun Bong-Gil was a spirited boy. Inspired by Korea’s March 1st independence movement against Japan that emerged in 1919, he rejected Japanese imperialistic education and learned both Chinese classics in a private school and modern scholarship. Acting as a farm activist devoted to enlightening farmers and reviving the farming villages, he operated evening classes and reading clubs, organized agricultural cooperatives and wrote books for farmers. In March 1930, when he was 23 years old, he headed to China after realizing his bigger ambitions for his country and the Korean people. Young Yun Bong-Gil met Kim Gu, the independence activist, at Shanghai, the home to the Provisional Government of Korea during Japanese colonial rule. On April 29, 1932, he, after clarifying his great cause of the fatherland’s independence, threw a bomb into the platform where Japanese army’s leaders were participating in a ceremony held at Honkou Park, Shanghai to celebrate a Japanese victory. This incident exposed, in and out of the country, of the Korean people’s lamentable reality under Japanese colonial rule, and provided a turning point in the languishing movement to gain independence from Japan. Arrested immediately on the spot, Patriot Yun Bong-Gil was executed by a firing squad on December 19, 1932 at the outskirts of Kanazawa city, Japan, ending his short 25 years of life. This happened two years after he sent the letter about his strong and resolute love for his fatherland.

Now, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Patriot Yun Bong-Gil, a commemorative stamp is issued. It features both Patriot Yun Bong-Gil and the written oath of the “Hanin aegukdan” (Korean Patriot Society), reflecting on the meaning of the sublime death he chose as a brave son of his fatherland.

OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy
- June 20, 2008


In June 2008, 1,500 significant personages such as ministers from 37 countries, global entrepreneurs, those representing international agencies and citizen groups, etc. will gather in Seoul to discuss the future of the Internet economy.

Today, the Internet has become an indispensable part of our lives and is becoming an important prop to almost every aspect of our society such as the economy, education, environment, hygiene, etc. In particular, with regard to economic activities, the need is growing to go beyond national borders and various interests to discuss and agree on policies related to the Internet economy. Such discussion will focus on implementation methods, with emphasis placed on both the benefits Internet brings to our economic activities, the accompanying obstacles and the possible solutions, as well as on growth, development and evolution in the Internet environment that will unfold in the future. This round of OECD ministerial meeting on the future of the Internet economy will serve as an important opportunity to present the outline of Internet-related policies that will be pursed by countries around the world over the next 10 years.

Following the previous meeting held 10 years ago in Ottawa, Canada, on the subject of electronic commerce, the 2008 meeting marks both the second ministerial meeting to be organized by the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) concerning the field of information and communication as well as being the first OECD ministerial meeting to be held in Asia.

In the wish that this OECD ministerial meeting on the future of the Internet economy, through effective and constructive discussions, will be productive in coming up with an astute roadmap that will spur the growth of the global Internet economy, a new stamp is issued, featuring “Korea -- the Hub of the Internet.”

A Happy Nation that Nurtures Kids - May 8, 2008


Among the many different sources of delight that exist in the world, Pestalozzi talked about the joy of parents looking at their children. Merely gazing at children who are as wholesome and pure as angels purifies our hearts and enables us to know happiness of life, just like magic. Giving birth and raising a baby are true blessings from God and our given mission to fulfill. But at some point, the idea of giving birth and raising a baby has taken a negative connotation in our society. Particularly in advanced countries, the issue of child rearing pitted against the growing freedom and desire of women to fulfill a career and the soaring expenses, including education expenses, has engendered a reluctance to have children. Meanwhile, in developing countries with relatively high birthrates, many kids are not properly nurtured, often denied such basic rights as education, hygiene, and even food. This issue of whether to give birth and raise children has become increasingly polarized, requiring the keen interest and strong support at the government level. Giving birth and raising a baby well are not roles only to be shouldered by individuals and families. The joyous mission of rearing children needs to be embraced by all nations and international societies.

Dreaming of a world where people can relish the happiness of raising a child without worries, works selected as the recipients of the Grand Prize as well as the Award of Excellence in the 2008 international postage stamp design contest are issued as new stamps. Isaiah Otieno Nondoh (Kenya) expresses an image of a mother smiling brightly with her baby in her arms. The picture drawn by Jazayeri Shirin (Iran) depicts babies juxtaposed over happy faces in contrast to frowning faces that have no babies in their midst.