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`Shon kee-chung, who was unhappy in spite of his being crowned with the Laurel of Victory in Berlin Olympiad of 1936, expressed the true smile on his face. The swinging of his two arms of winner, Hwang Young-Jo which were stretched upwards high I the midst of attracting of world people’s attention, with getting ahead of the Japanese Marathoner, in August 9, 1992, was sufficient to make clean our national feeling which was humiliated in case of Shon Kee-Chung, and became the chance to raise Korean national self-confidence with capturing all of two Laurel Wreaths which were gained by the Orientals. Moreover, the fact that this was accomplished in Catalonia of the seaside of the mediterranean which is the complex site of culture from the East and the West, and in Olympiad which tanscended the differences of religion, race comes to our mind as the more deep emotion. We converted the grand feast of humanbeing into the ground for the international serious collaboration by hosting `88 Seoul Olympiad successfully, which used to be the ground for the conflicts between the East and the West since the modern Olympiad for the collaboration of humanbeing started in 1896. In the mean time, the fact of adornment of the beginning and the end of the 25th Balcelona Olymiad by winning the championships in shooting and in Marathon to prove the potential power of Mu Gung Hwa(Rose of Sharon, Korean national flower which symbolizes a patience) people, gives us more confidence towards the national unification. For the Korean who have loved arts and protected peace traditionally, it is a time to be in the forefront for the peace of Asia and the prosperity of the world positively. The Ministry of Communications issues two kinds of Commemorative issues two kinds of Commemorative postage stamps for the wining the Marathon championships in the 1936 Berlin Olympiad and 1992 Barcelona Olympiad.`