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`The year 1984 marks the hundredth year of theKorean postal service. In commeoration of the occasion, the Ministry of Communications and the Philatelic Federation of Korea, with the support of the Federation Internationale de Philateolie(FIP), put on a world postage stamp exhibition, PHILAKOREA 84, at the Korea Exhibition Center(KOEX), Seoul, from October 22 through 31, 1984. In addition, the Ministry of Communications is issuing a series of postage stamps under the head of ``Kordan Postal Service, Yesterday and Today``, with thematic materials that show Koeran postal service in its historical contexts. The following two kinds are the fourth in the series. 1. The First Postage Stamps issued in Korea With the start of the modern postal adminstration on November 18,1884, two kinds of postage stamp were issued : one was five-mun and the other ten-mun stamps(mun : the then monetary unit). Originally, an order for five kinds was placed to Japan, but only tow of them arrived and were put to use. The stamps being issued carries the original designs of the stamps, complete with a model date stamp. 2. A Presentday Postage Stamp Today`s postage stamps are printed by the Government Printing & Mint Agency. The printing has gradually been diversified, and in addition to the lithographic, such methods of printing as photogravure, intaglio and a combination of photogravure and intaglio are also used in the manufacture of postage stamps, which can include as many as six colors. The design of the stamp being issued is the current five-thousand-won definitive stamp made for overseas parcel post.`