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`Following the 24th Seoul Olympics, the 8th Seoul Paralympics are also held in Seoul, October 15 through 24, 1988. ``Challenge and Overcoming````Peace and Friendship`` and ``Participation and Equality`` are the motos of the Games, which are expected to be a great sports festival of amity and unity for the handicapped of the world, as well as a moving moment of physical and mental handicaps being overcome by human will. Athletic activities, moreover, are of special significance for the handicapped since they help not only to prevent further reduction of function of the affected part, but also to recover the function of the surviving part. The Ministry of Communications issues these postage stamps in commemoration of `88 Seoul Paralympics, which, we hope, will become an occasion for us the non-handicapped to realize that this is a world not only for the non-handicapped but also the handicapped, who are not an object of sympathy or shunning but normal people with a disability. It is also hoped that the one million disabled people of our country will again be encouraged in their will to overcome their handicap, and that we will move a step forward toward a perfect welfare state by further expanding our facilities for the handicapped. `