New Member, Old Collection

I started collecting stamps and coins when I was about 9 (going by the copyright dates on my first stamp album from that time). I had found a book that either my father or grandfather had when they were young - no stamps in it, dated 1935. My father's aunts "babysat" us Saturday mornings and saved everything as far as post cards, letters, cards, spare change and so on. I was fascinated and got started collecting by buying a book at "the dime store" and soaking stamps off their old envelopes. Lots from the 20s and 30s, onward. Then after a few years of coins and stamps, life got in the way and it all got set aside. Something trigged it again about 6 years ago and I ordered up a new set of albums (this time, loose leaf) and dropped the hinges in favor of split-back mounts. After 50 years, I'd seen the results of hinges on those old pages over the years. Good or bad, that's my direction now.
I have a fair number of non-USA stamps, I concentrate on Korea, and a few other countries as my daughter-in-law is Korean. Coins - mostly U.S. but I have many from around the world as co-workers at a company founded by Russian immigrants would bring me back coins from their travels, so it includes Russia as well as several other countries. Nothing big, just fun to have.
I am a former auto mechanic, raised and trained, farmed for a while, then got into IT, and network security with the State of Iowa. Retired a few years back and decided to pull my stamp collection back out after an elderly friend of my wife gave me a gallon bag of stamps she'd saved, a box of stamps, and her old Minkus album. Blew me away. It will take MONTHS to go through it all and get those darned self-adhesive stamps off the paper and cards! The gummed stamps, the "lick-ems" were simple but still took many hours.
I like stamps with cats, and my favorite comic characters, and coins from unusual places.
I have my classic cars and spend a lot of time in my shop.
I happened to be in Korea and visited their postal museum and bought a number of stamps, including this first day cover in a really nice collector folder.

Welcome.

Hi YawniesPapa welcome to the forum.

I collect Korean stamps as well - a while back I bought a huge collection of Korean stamps in 2018 or 2019 (just before the pandemic) from an antiques dealer - there were tons and tons of souvenir sheets and single stamps that I have yet to understand and catalog....I don't even know where to begin to be honest.

Anyways, I look forward to seeing your posts in the future.

Thanks to both for the welcome.
I know Google can translate a lot - but if there's something that really stumps, my daughter-in-law is Korean, my son his a Korean history buff, and my grandson is of course good at both Korean and English, going to school in both countries and might be able to help.
I wish I had more from Korea - at some point, I suspect my collections will go to that grandson.