| Title: Royal Court Clothes Series (5th Issue) (View Souvenir Sheet) |
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Stamp Serial#
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871 | |||
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KPC#
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C-579 | |||
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MICHEL#
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898 | |||
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StanGib#
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1078 | |||
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Scott#
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867 | |||
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Date of Issue
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11/30/1973 | |||
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Quantity
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2,000,000 | |||
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Denomination
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10 won | |||
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Design
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Pyong-sang-bok Official wife's costume |
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Designer
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Kim Sung-sil | |||
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Image Area
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33mm*49mm | |||
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Perforation
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13 | |||
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Sheet Composition
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5Ąż5 | |||
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Paper
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Whiteunwatermarked | |||
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Printer
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Government Printing & Mint Agency of the Repubic of Korea | |||
| Description | ||||
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The Ministry of Communications is issuing these two stamps as the fifth and final
part of a series introducing traditional Korean clothes. These stamps feature Kukunbok, a military
clothes of the Yi Dynasty period, and Pyongsangbok, an ordinary costume for wives of civil and military
officials.
2. Pyongsangbok: This is an ordinary costume worn by wives of both civil and military officials when they were visiting the royal court. The most popularly worn traditional female clothes, it is made up of Chogori, a coat, which has strips of jade green cloth affixed to the collar, the edge of sleeves and the armpits, and dark blue Chima, a full-length skirt. Accessories include a small gilded hairpin and a large ornamental hairpin made of jade. Chogori worn by widows has no decorative strips of cloth attached to it. |
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