PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games
  
information on Korean stamp
Date of Issue |
: 2018.01.18 |
Types |
: 10 |
Denomination |
: 330 won |
Design |
: |
Stamp No. |
: 3263 |
Printing Process
& Colors |
: Offset, Four Colors, Pantone Silver, UV lacquer |
Size of Stamp |
: 40 × 34.7 |
WholeSheet
Composition |
: 10 |
Image Area |
: 40 × 34.7, 36 × 31.8 |
Paper |
: White unwatermarked |
Perforation |
: 13 × 13 |
Printer |
: Cartor for POSA |
Designer |
: Kim, So-jeong |
Quantity |
: 80,000 stamps each |
Detail
PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, a
passionate stage for the disabled around the world, will
be held for 10 days from March 9 to 18, 2018 in regions
of PyeongChang, Gangneung and Jeongseon, Gangwon
Province, the Republic of Korea. Paralympics is a
compound word derived from the words paralegia ,
meaning waist-down paralysis, and Olympics but it now
connotes the meaning parallel with equal participation
of athletes with varying disabilities. Paralympic games
are classified into 6 disability categories (arms and
legs, brain damage, intelligence, vision, wheelchair use,
others) and level of impairment is defined so athletes
of similar disabilities can compete against each other.
In PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, as
many as 1,500 athletes from 50 countries will participate
to compete in over 80 events in 6 sports. Alpine Skiing
consists of downhill and slalom events for speeding
down a steep slope at high speed. Cross-Country Skiing
is an event for gliding across a course on skis in
the shortest possible timeframe. Biathlon is an event
where athletes ski while they carry a gun on their back
and fire at shooting ranges throughout the course. In
Ice Hockey , athletes with a physical impairment in
the lower part of the body play ice hockey on a sled.
Snowboarding is an event where athletes cross over
obstacles through fast downhill and exciting techniques.
Wheelchair Curling is an event where two teams
consisting of four athletes score points by sliding a
round, flat stone inside the house (target), and is often
regarded as chess on ice.
The emblem in five traditional colors of Korea
expresses a peaceful and hopeful world where people
of different nationalities and regions with and without
impairment, athletes, and spectators all gather together
in friendship. The mascot Bandabi which took its
motif from the Asiatic black bear is a warm-hearted
character who is setting an example for equality and
harmony.