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information on Korean stamp
Date of Issue : 1967.09.15
Types : 3
Denomination : 5 won
Design : Korean Seesaw
Stamp No. : 564
Printing Process
& Colors
: Lithographed Yellow, Yellowish red, Deep blue purple, Black
Size of Stamp : null
WholeSheet
Composition
: 10×5
Image Area : 23×33
Paper : Fibrinous unwmkd
Perforation : 13
Printer : Government Printing Agency
Designer : Kang, Choon-Whan
Quantity : 1000000
Detail
`The Ministry of Communications will issue three new stamps as the third part of the folklore stamp series, featuring traditional Korean seesaw, swing and Gang­gang­sul­lae (dancing in the moonshine). Swing 4­won stamp depicts a swing, a game of vigor and delight played by girls who exert bodily back and forward on a rope suspended from a branch of a big tree, moving up and down in a great arc. This is a game usually played by a girl on the Dano Day, one of the annual Korean festivals. It is a real sight to see a girl move high and low with her Chima (long Korean skirts) fluttering. Our many legendary romantic affairs are associated with this game as is narrated in the famous ancient romance, ``Chunhyangchon`` and in other proses and ballads. Korean Seesaw Seesaw is the subject of 5-won stamp. Two persons ride on an opposite end of a plank mounted a support in the middle and take turns up-and-down. This is also a game mostly played by girls. At the height of the game, some jump up as high as 1.5-2 meters. The origin of the game dates back to the Koryo age.Beautiful maidens in their bests wearing colorful hair ribbons enjoy playing this game particularly in the beginning of a new year. Gang­gang­sul­lae Gang­gang­sul­lae depicted on 7-won stamp is a folk dance unique to our southern provinces. In the flood of the silver moonshine on the Full Moon`s Day (August 15 in lunar calendar), all the maidens in town dance and sing moving hand in hand in a circle. Words of theGang­gang­sul­lae song varies with provincial area and a person who leads the chorus song and the rest of the girls repeats the refrain. The song starts in a slow tempo and gradually changes to a quick and quicker tempo.`
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