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Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018
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Date of Issue : 2017.11.01
Types : 20
Denomination : 330 won
Design :
Stamp No. : 3233
Printing Process
& Colors
: Offset, Four Colors, Pantone Silver, UV lacquer
Size of Stamp : 40 × 30
WholeSheet
Composition
: 2 + (4×2)
Image Area : 40 × 30
Paper : White unwatermarked
Perforation : 13 × 13¼
Printer : Cartor for POSA
Designer : Park,Eun-kyung
Quantity : 75,000 stamps each
Detail
The 23rd Olympic Winter Games, a festival of winter sports for the world to celebrate, is slated to be held over 17 days from February 9 to 25, 2018 in Pyeongchang, Gangneung and Jeongseon of Koreas Gangwon Province. The first Olympic Winter Games was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. Pyeongchang, after three consecutive bids, was finally selected as the host city of the 23rd Olympic Winter Games. The Olympic Winter Games Pyeongchang 2018, which will be held under the slogan of Passion. Connected, offers a total of 102 gold medals. This is the first Olympic Winter Games with over 100 gold medals being up for grabs. The athletes will compete in 102 events in 15 sport disciplines, which are divided into seven events of snow sports, three of sliding sports and five of ice sports. In particular, with six new events, such as Snowboard Big Air (men, women), Speed Skating Mass Start (men, women), Curling Mixed Doubles and mixed Alpine Skiing, added to the program, the Pyeongchang 2018 games will be the stage for the largest number of womens and mixed events in the history of the Olympic Winter Games. Most snow sports, such as Ski Jumping, Snowboard and Nordic Combined, will be held in Pyeongchang together with the opening and closing ceremonies. All ice sporting events including Speed Skating, Figure Skating and Short Track Speed Skating will be held in Gangneung and Alpine Skiing will be held in Jeongseon. The official mascot for Pyeongchang 2018 is Soohorang. Sooho, meaning protection in Korean, symbolizes protection of the athletes, spectators and other participants in the 2018 Games. Rang comes from Horangi, the Korean word for tiger, and also from Jeongseon Arirang, a folk song of Gangwon Province. The emblem, which was designed after the shapes of the initial consonants of Korean letters for Pyeongchang, symbolizes a world open to everyone. It combines the image of ice (ice sports) and snow (snow sports) as well as winter sports stars (athletes) and people from all over the world coming together in Pyeongchang where heaven meets earth. Korea Post is issuing commemorative stamps as a means to extend its hopes for the successful hosting of the first Olympic Winter Games in Korea. The full-sheet stamp shows Gangneung Ice Arena and Speed Skating Track. The individual stamps contain the images of Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium and Soohorang Alpine Ski as well of competitive winter sports such as biathlon, bobsleigh, cross-country skiing, curling, figure skating, freestyle skiing, ice hockey, luge, nordic combined, short track speed skating, skeleton, ski jumping, snowboard and speed skating.
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