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`With the Seoul Olympiad only about 100 days away and the enthusiasm of people all over the world heightening day by day, the Ministry of Communications issues two kinds of postage stamps featuring the Olympic Stadium and the relaying of the Olympic torch respectively. It is especially to be noticed that as a symbol of the spiritual bridge between the ancient and modern Games, we issus the Olympic torch postage stamp simultaneously with Greece, the birthplace of thd Olympics, which also issues one of the same kind. It is our sincere hope that these particular stamps simultaneously issued the two countries will meet withe special affection of all the philatelists of the world.`