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`The Ministry of Communications newly issues the following five kinds of eighty-won definitive postage stamps, all with a bird as the theme of design, in order to add variety to the current definitive postage stamps. 1.Waxwing With a rather small bady, about 18cm long, deep-red at the tips of wings and tail, the waxwing is a rare bird in our country, living mainly in trees, and found only in such areas as Seoul, Yangju and Cheju lsland. 2.Kingfisher This bird, which inhabits the watersides in broad-leaved forests, is about 25cm long and found in summer in our country in Mt. Puk-han, Seoul, and in such provinces as kyunggi-do, Kyungsang-nam-do and Cholla-puk-do. There is a littie difference in color between male and female, the male being black in the forehead and the frout of eyes, with black feathers over the ears, but white in the lower side of chin, and the cheeks and the neak. 3.Oriol This bird,whose female is yellow with a grassy-green tint all over its body and wings with a yellow green on the head and male is golden yellow allover, lives in flat lands and needle-leaved or broadleaved forests, but more often in the weeds under trees or shrubs. In our country the oriole is found in such districts as Seoul, Suwon, Kwangreung, Chungpyong, Hwachon, Mt.Sokri and Cheju Islsnd. 4.Hopoe This bird with the forehead and head feathers rising up to form a horn 2 to 6cm high, is light yellow brown with a red tint in the chest, belly and under the wings and black on the surface feathers of the tail. Found throughout our country, the bird inhabit the weeds, agricultural fields and forests needle-leaved or broad leaved. 5.Roller With no color difference between male and female, the hoopoe is dark brown in the forehead, top and back of head, the front of eyes and around the ears, but grassy-green at the tips of feathers. Living in the bigger trees, such as needle-leaved or gingko trees.the bird feeds mainly on insects, and in our country inhabits the kyunggi-do region. Chejudo is an island so rich in beauty of natural scenery and exotic in culture that it keeps attracting tourists both from home and abroad and is even called a ``legendary island.``Among the things representing traditional culture in the island is Tolharubang or Stone Grandfather, stone images of man with a humourous smile on his face. Tolharubang or Stone Grandfather, which has become a symbol of the island. stands at the entrance of a traditional village or a house, serving as the guardian deity driving away evil spirits. Tolharubang looks a little different from one another, but all of them appear majestic, with their unproportionately big eyes bulging out, their lips neatly closed, a cap on, and their hands resting on their stomachs. It is unknown when the stone images began to be made.`