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`Many of the precious cultural traditions that contain the soul and originality of our ancestors are fast disappearing from the scene of our modernizing life. This unfortunate side effect of the changing times has caused all of us Koreans living today to make every possible effort to rediscover, inherit and develop them as a support of our national independence and orthodoxy. It is in this spirit that the Ministry of Communications is issuing folkways postage stamps in series. For the present issue, the 6th of the series, the mask dance has been chosen which is part of the immaterial assets of our culture. It is a dramatic revelation of the internal attitude of our forefathers toward the realities of their times. Scattered, roughly in the four region of Kyeonggi, Kyeongbuk-Kangwon, Hwanghae, and along the coast of Kyeognam, the Korean mask dance shows different features in different places, but the common idea is based on realism and social criticism rather than on notional ways of thinking.`