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= Understood to be a current stamp printer.
= company still believed to exist.
KAMPUCHEA
(Formerly KHMER
REPUBLIC)
First postage stamp issued: 1951
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: [unknown printer]
No stamps appear to have
been produced locally.
KAZAKHSTAN
 First
postage stamp issued: [when?]
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: State Printing Works
(Germany), Postage Stamp Printing House
(China) and Kazak Bank Note Printing Works
(Kazakhstan).
Kazak Bank Note Printing
Works, Alma Ata.
First
stamp(s) traced by compiler: 2002 for Kazakhstan
Main printing process(es):
Litho
KENYA
First postage stamp issued: 1963
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: Walsall (GB).
No stamps appear to have
been produced locally. However, local handstamping
occurred at Mombassa on the stamps of the
Imperial Administration in 1895.
KHMER
REPUBLIC
(See KAMPUCHEA)
KIRIBATI
First postage stamp issued: 1979
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: Cartor (France), BDT (Ireland).
No stamps appear to have
been produced locally.
KOREA
First
postage stamp issued: 1884
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: N/A. Not a current
stamp issuing country.
Ministry of Agriculture, Seoul.
First
stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1899 (Overprints)
for Korea [South].
Printing Bureau, Ministry
of Agriculture, Commerce and Industry, Seoul.
First
stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1900 for Korea.
KOREA
[North]
First postage stamp issued: 1946
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by:Government Print Works
(N. Korea)
Government
Printing Works, Pyongyang.
First
stamp(s) traced by compiler: [when?].
KOREA
[South]
First
postage stamp issued: 1946
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: KMSPC (S. Korea)
Chung
Kyo Sa Printing Office, [Where?].
First
stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1946 for Korea
(South).
Korea Books Printing Company, [Where?].
First
stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1947 for Korea
(South).
Korea Security Printing
and Minting Corporation, Pusan,
then Seoul, then Taejon.
Abbreviation
known by: KPSMC.
Or,
from1999:
Korea
Minting and Security Printing Corporation, Taejon.
Abbreviation
known by: KOMSEP.
First
stamp(s) traced by compiler: [when?] for
Korea (South).
Main
printing process(es): Litho, recess, gravure The Korea Security Printing
and Minting Corporation was founded on 1st October
1951 and was initially located at Pusan.
Following the cease-fire in the Korean War,
the head office moved to Seoul and in 1973
to Taejon.
Investment in new plants,
new paper mills and relevant equipment has
seen the company grow and expand into new
markets. They are responsible for printing
bank notes and other security documents
as well as postage stamps – and not just
for South Korea.
Korean Government Printing
and Minting Agency, Choong Cheong Nam
Do.
Founded:
1 October 1951.
First
stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1952 for Korea
(South).
This office came under the
direct control of the Ministry of Finance,
and started printing postage stamps on 7
May 1952.
Koryu Moonhwa Printing
Company, [Where?].
First
stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1949 for Korea
(South).
Kyung Hwa Printing Office, [Where?].
First
stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1946 for Korea
(South).
Tongyang Chungpan Printing
Company, [Where?].
First
stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1950 for Korea
(South).
KUWAIT
First postage stamp issued:
1958
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: [unknown printer]
No stamps appear to have
been produced locally.
KYRGYZSTAN
First postage stamp issued: 1992
Stamp printing for this country
is primarily done by: Conquest Trading Corporation
Printing Works, Lithuania and State Printing
Works, Russia.
No stamps appear to have
been produced locally.
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