3rd Korea Boy Scout Jamboree in 1967

Today's featured stamps and souvenir sheets were issued in 1967 to commemorate the 3rd Boy Scout Jamboree in South Korea. I added these stamps and souvenir sheets to my collection a few months back. Here are some of the particulars for this stamp issue:

• Date of Issue: 10 August 1967
• Scott Catalogue #: 580 (top image), 581 (bottom image)
• Korea Postage stamp Catalogue #: C331 (top image), C332 (bottom image)
• Quantity Produced (top image): 1,000,000 stamps and 80,000 souvenir sheets
• Quantity Produced (bottom image): 500,000 stamps and 80,000 souvenir sheets 

One of the enjoyable aspects of collecting Korean stamps for me is learning more about the topic featured on the stamps and without fail the first place I usually stop at to get some background is the Korea Stamp Society homepage. For this featured stamp issue the Korea Stamp Society has the following information on it's website:

The third Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of Korea will be held at Hwarangdae, Seoul, the site of the Korean Military Academy from 10th to 15th August, 1967. The Jamboree is a part of a series of colorful events to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Korean Boy Scouts.

Nearly 6,000 Korean Scouts and 200 foreign Scouts and Scouters from the Republic of China, Japan, Philippines and the United States of America will participate in the great events. The objects of the Jamboree are to give opportunities to Scouts from all the Provinces of Korea to live together as brother Scouts and to foster unity and solidarity among them and also to promote the idea of the world brotherhood of Scouts.

The word "Jamboree" was used by Sir Baden Powell of Gilwell for the first time in the Scouting since he held the first international Jamboree in August, 1920, at London, England. The third Korea Jamboree will be not only a pageant to celebrate its 45th anniversary but also will dramatically show the picture of the Korean Boy Scouts movements.

   

Reading about the background to this stamp issue jogs some memories of the couple years I spent in the boy scouts as a child (in the U.S.) and reminds me of this past year (2010) and being up in Washington D.C. the weekend of the Boy Scout Jamboree. Admittedly, I know very little about the Boy Scouts in Korea...aside from the fact my brother-in-law was one. However, as I began to look into the Boy Scouts in Korea I found the topic to be quite interesting. Below is the emblem for the Korea Scout Association that I obtained from their website...very good breakdown of the symbol's meaning.

Interesting stuff indeed! Maybe since I'm on the topic of scouting I'll take a look at the 1961 stamp issue commemorating the 15th anniversary of Korean Girl Scouts next. Until then...