Question: India-South Korea joint stamps will be released by the end of?
(a) 2019
(b) 2020
(c) 2021
(d) 2022
Answer: (a)
Related facts:
- Department of Posts, Ministry of Communications, Government of India and the Ministry of Science and ICT (Korea Post), Government of the Republic of Korea mutually agreed to jointly issue postage stamps on the theme ‘Queen Hur Hwang-ok of Korea’.
- The joint stamps will be released on a mutually agreed date by the end of 2019.
- Hur Hwang-ok was a legendary queen mentioned in Samguk Yusa, a 13th –Century Korean Chronicle.
- According to Samguk Yusa she became the wife of king Suro of Geumgwan Gay at the age of 16, after having arrived by boat from a distant kingdom, making her a legendary first queen of Geumagwan Gaya.
- There is a tomb in Gimhae, South Korea that is believed by some to be hers, and a memorial in Ayodhya in India.
- The belief comes from several historical Korean stories, which tell the story of an Indian princess – Suriratna – who married a South Korean King and started the Karak dynasty.
- South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula.
Links:
https://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/news_updates/cabinet-apprised-about-mou-between-india-and-republic-of-korea-in-issuing-jointly-postage-stamp/
http://www.pib.nic.in/Pressreleaseshare.aspx?PRID=1570593
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heo_Hwang-ok
http://www.bbc.co.uk/new/world-asia-india-46055285