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Korea Post moves to transform mailboxes amid dwindling use

Red post boxes, which have only delivered paper letters for the past 40 years, will now handle small packages and collect used coffee capsules and waste medicine, according to Korea Post.

2024-12-16

Korea Post introduces 'Year of the Blue Snake' stamps

Korea Post employees introduce the 2025 editions of post cards and stamps for “the year of the blue snake” at the stamp museum at the Korea Post headquarters in Jung District, central Seoul, on Monday.

2024-12-02

Parcels, packages primed for posting this Chuseok

Workers sort parcels at the East Seoul Post and Logistics Center in Gwangjin District, eastern Seoul, on Tuesday, a week before the Chuseok harvest festival holiday.

2024-09-10

Korea Post, global partners to speed up international mail

Korea Post partnered with fellow members of the international postal alliance to enhance international mail service and combat declining volume following the Covid-19 pandemic.

2024-07-10

Korea Post continues legacy as nation’s parcel service

Korea Post, with its highest next-day delivery rate and retrieval rate, secured its top spot in the parcel service sector for 17 consecutive years. It was also given a grade A according to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport’s...

2023-12-29

Cho Hae-keun named as new president of Korea Post

The Ministry of Science and ICT tapped Cho Hae-keun, formerly a civil servant specializing in drawing legislation for the People Power Party, as the new president of Korea Post, a state-run postal service provider.

2023-09-26

1,700 evacuate Korea Post building due to unknown package

Multiple packages containing unknown substances, sent from overseas and being delivered to random places in Korea, have recently been raising concern around the country.

2023-07-21

Korea Post offers same level of service, wherever you are

Korea Post topped the Korean Customer Satisfaction Index (KCSI) for the sector for the 24th year in a row in 2022. That result came after Korea Post highlighted 32 innovative tasks on which it collaborated with the public, new businesses and...

2023-01-06

Posting parcels

Ahead of the Chuseok harvest holidays, workers sort parcels at the East Seoul Post and Logistics Center in Gwangjin District, eastern Seoul, on Thursday. Korea Post estimated that 19.17 million parcels will be posted for Chuseok this year, adding...

2022-09-01

Postal party

The chief of Korea Post Son Seung-hyun, far right, speaks during a meeting of top executives of postal administrations from 11 countries around the world in Madrid on July 21. The Kahala Posts Group — an international alliance of ...

2022-07-24