My UNESCO World Heritage Postcards: North Korea 3

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North Korea - Mount Kumgang – Diamond Mountain from the Sea (2025)

"Mount Kumgang is a long-celebrated place of exceptional natural beauty, renowned for its near-white granite peaks, deep valleys, waterfalls, and pristine ecosystems, rising to nearly 1,600 metres. The mountain’s dramatic impact is enhanced through constantly changing weather patterns of mists, rain, sunshine and clouds. This sacred mountain is a key site of mountain Buddhism, with traditions dating back to the 5th century. This cultural landscape is home to ancient hermitages, temples, stupas, and stone carvings, many located in the Outer and Inner Kumgang Area. Three temples remain active today and bear exceptional testimony to centuries of Buddhist practice, with tangible and intangible heritage deeply intertwined with the landscape."

Source: UNESCO World Heritage Site

Nice postcard of Mount Kumgang of North Korea. Thanks to Chintung who visited Pyongyang and mailed it on August 4, 2012.

North Korea - Complex of Koguryo Tombs

"The property includes several group and individual tombs - totalling about 30 individual tombs - from the later period of the Koguryo Kingdom, one of the strongest kingdoms in nowadays northeast China and half of the Korean peninsula between the 3rd century BC to 7th century AD. The tombs, many with beautiful wall paintings, are almost the only remains of this culture. Only about 90 out of more than 10,000 Koguryo tombs discovered in China and Korea so far, have wall paintings. Almost half of these tombs are located on this site and they are thought to have been made for the burial of kings, members of the royal family and the aristocracy. These paintings offer a unique testimony to daily life of this period.”

Source: UNESCO World Heritage

Postcard 1
Tomb of King Tongmyong. I bought matching Koguryo UNESCO stamps and arranged mailing of this UNESCO postcard from Pyongyang in August 2019 and it arrived in Penang on September 25, 2019.

Postcard 2

A similar postcard of Tomb of King Tongmyong. I received this North Korea postcard from a sender from China. I had this postcard for awhile and only just realized that it is one of the major tombs of this World Heritage site after seeing a photo of a UNESCO World Heritage plague placed by North Korea government on this tomb. Bought stamps and cancelled at International Stamp Exhibitions in Thailand and Singapore.

North Korea - Historic Monuments and Sites in Kaesong

"Situated in Kaesong city, in the south of the country, the site consists of 12 separate components, which together testify to the history and culture of the Koryo Dynasty from the 10th to 14th centuries. The geomantic layout of the former capital city of Kaesong, its palaces, institutions and tomb complex, defensive walls and gates embody the political, cultural, philosophical and spiritual values of a crucial era in the region’s history. The monuments inscribed also include an astronomical and meteorological observatory, two schools (including one dedicated to educating national officials) and commemorative steles. The site testifies to the transition from Buddhism to neo-Confucianism in East Asia and to the assimilation of the cultural spiritual and political values of the states that existed prior to Korea’s unification under the Koryo Dynasty. The integration of Buddhist, Confucian, Taoist and geomantic concepts is manifest in the planning of the site and the architecture of its monuments.

1) Manwoldae
2) Kaesong Walls
3) Koryo Songgyungwan
4) Kaesong Namdae Gate
5) Sungyang Sowon
6) Sonjuk Bridge and Phyochung Monuments
7) Mausoleum of King Wang Kon
8) Mausoleum of King Kongmin

" Source: UNESCO World Heritage

Postcard 1 - Monwol Pavilion -Dragon sculpture
North Korea - dragon sculpture of Manwol Pavillion of Kaesong UNESCO World Heritage Site. Year of Pig stamps used. I bought postcard and stamps and have it mailed to my address from Pyongyang, North Korea.

Postcard 2 - Phyochunbi - Monuments in praise of Jong Mong Ju

Phyochungbi turtle steele with matching stamp mailed from North Korea. I bought postcard and stamp and have it mailed from Pyongyang.

Postcard 3 - Sonjuk Bridge

Historic stone bridge of Sonjuk Bridge, Kaesong UNESCO World Heritage site. I bought this postcard and stamps and have it mailed back to me from Pyongyang, North Korea.

Postcard 4 - Sungyang Private School

Postcard 5 - The Mausoleum of King Wanggon

I bought all these Kaesong postcards from the DPRK Pavilion during the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.

Postcard 6 - Kaesong Damdae Gate
Wow, a hologram postcard of Namdaeng Gate of Kaesong. I have heard of these DPRK hologram posctcards but it was surreal to finally receive one. Thanks so much Grete of UK for mailing from North Korea.