Title : New Year's Greetings
Types : 1
Date of Issue : December 1, 2006
Quantity : 1.6 million stamps (S/S 320,000 sheets)
Denomination : 250 won (S/S 500 won)
Design : A pig running through the snow
Stamp No. : 2530
Printing Process and Colors : Photogravure, six colors (printed in photostorage ink)
Size of Stamp : 26mm x 36mm
Image Area : 23mm x 33mm
Perforation : 13
Sheet Composition : 4 x 5 (140mm x 216mm)
Paper : White Unwatermarked
Designer : Park Eunkyung
Photography : Park Eunkyung
Printer : Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation

The upcoming 2007 is the year of the pig.

Wishing for good fortune in the upcoming New Year with pigs which are regarded by Korean people as a symbol of good luck, a new year's stamp featuring "a pig running through the snow" is issued. this stamp is printed with photostorage ink, which absorbs lights and emits them in the dark. The pig itself and the snow glow in the dark.

Next issue : Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity Special - December 8, 2006