1897, red Dae Han in seal style (top right character broken) on 5 Poon 2nd printing, a vertical pair with vertical paper break aka white line at right, tied smudged "Hansung Kwangmu 3.12.15" (Dec. 15, 1899) to entire folded letter to Haeju c/o local garrison administration but not found: investigation by 4 paper tags and pmks. of Haeju Dec. 19 and Seoul Dec. 23/24, top tag (Seoul Dec. 25 datestamp) explains reasons for return. Bottom stamp pasted slightly overlapping and corner fault. - The entire folded letter was never opened. Amazing commercial usage. (Image)

Incoming mail, 1897, Germany, UPU card 10 Pf. canc. BERLIN.O. 10.10.97" to Fusan, Royal Corean Customs staff H. G. Ahrens but missent to Cerea/Italy "CEREA 12 10 97", than to "Caston Attleborough" England with respective datestamps of Oct. 16 and ms. "not-known in caston", finally endorsed in red "Corea.Asia", arrived "FUSAN I.J.P.O. 5 DEC 97" but again forwarded to Japan "NAGASAKI 13 DEC 97". On reverse partially preprinted bookshop/editors/old books Mayer&Müller, "purveyors to HM the King of Sweden and Norway" with Berlin W. dateline, horiz. crease, a well travelled card. The country name taken for a place in europe by local postal staff, amazing.
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1900, stationery: card 1 Ch. light blue, first inscription (13 characters) unused mint resp. cto "CHEMULPO 20 MAI 00", month of issuance. Two cards.
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1900, card 1 Ch. light blue, "Nongsangkong-bu" bottom imprint, canc. bisected circle "Weonsan Kw. 4.9.5" (Sept. 5, 1900) to Yokohama/Japan w. Sept. 11 arrival. Sender japanese postal staff of Gensan (Weonsan) I.J.P.O. to friend at Yokohama p.o. - Around this time, 1 Ch. exchange rate in korean coin was only about 50% of the japanese card rate of 1 1/2 Sen, which led to the revision of the Korea-Japan postal treaty in 1902. Ex-Mizuhara collection, on original album page 101. Auction record: Spink Jan. 2013 #1907.
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1901, UPU card 4 Ch. (2) used to Germany by two different postal routes: "SEOUL 24 SEPT 01" via Chemulpo and Shanghai french p.o. westbound route via Suez to Dresden; and "GENSAN 10 OCT 03" via Nagasak and Yokohama eastbound route via US or Canada to Kruschnitz and fwd. to Wernigerode. - Ex-Mizuhara collection, on original album page 97. Auction record: Spink Jan. 2013 #1903.
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1903, falcon 2 C. tied "SEOUL 11 MARS 05" to ppc to Neuwied/Germany: cartoon card (ed. Hoshinoya,Yokohama) with not-amused Lady Korea approached by stalkers Mr. Russia, Mr. Japan and Mr. China.
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1903, card french printing 1 C. green uprated falcon 3 Ch. orange canc. "SEOUL No. 1 9 SEPT 04" via Chemulpo to Germany w. arrival "KIEL 22.10.04". Commercial usage of Seoul branch office dater. Card on reverse partial slight toning.
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Incoming mails, 1926/27, three registered cover to Korea: from Beyrouth/Lebanon 1927 resp. Aleppo/Syria 1926 and Haifa/Palestine 1927, all with transits of Port Said and Kobe/Japan, Kimchon/Korea arrivals.
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1940's-2000's: Collection of mint and used stamps, multiples and more than 100 miniatur/souvenir sheets from North and South Korea, up to a major part modern mint.