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.