Few More North Korean Stamps

Here are a few more stamps.

Muks

Thanks for posting. I'm seeing many of these for the first time.

Muks, thanks for posting these, another interesting selection. The middle stamp on the top row shows the Korean type blocks for the numbers "1, 2, 3, 4" (hana, tul, set, net).

I always found it confusing when I worked in South Korea that there were two number systems - the Korean and the "Chinese-based" system.

By the way, the stamp second from left on the bottom row (1952 Peace Propaganda) is inverted.

Really? It appears to me that the four pieces of type spell out the words for "movable metal type" in hanja (Chinese characters). Google Translate tells me that the Korean pronunciation would be geumsog hwalja; I'm more familiar with the Japanese reading, kinzoku katsuji.

Oh, I think that is my mistake. I've placed it upside down in error.

No, you have all of the stamps right side up. Just look at the 1234, 1959, and 5. The pieces of type are arranged from top to bottom in the picture on the stamp.

Apologies to all, my thanks to erilaz.

I misunderstood the description under the image in the SG catalogue, which states "Korean type of 1234", I could recognise it was hanja, but couldn't remember the name, nor translate it. Not sure what the significance is of "1234" .

I should have known better! Mianhamnida (sorry in Korean)!

1234 would be the year when movable metal type was first used in Korea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histo...ype_in_Korea

It seems a bit odd to commemorate the 725th anniversary of something on a stamp, but I guess they weren't keen on waiting another 25 years for the 750th.