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`The 24th Olympic Game are held in Seoul, September 17 through October 2, 1988. The Seoul Olympics, with `harmhony and progress` as its ideal, promises to be a grand world festival where a great variety of cultures will meet together in harmony in the cultural atmosphere of a five thousand year old country, and where the finest youths from all parts of the world will compete with one another in strength and skill in an environment of humane warmth of the host nation. In commemoration of the Seoul Olympic Games, the Ministry of Communication began in 1985 and will continue until 1988, to issue 32 kinds of Olympic postage stamps featyring the emblem, the mascot, the 23 athletic events and stadiums. The postage stamps featuring weightlifting and hadball are issued in accordance with the long-term schedule of the Ministry.`