(wm-pcp) Although the website of this world exhibition of philately, which has been postponed from 2024 to 2025, (https://philakorea2025.kr/) still mostly features a message ‘under construction’ notice, but according to information from the BDPh commissioner Frank Blechschmidt, it is now to take place in Seoul from 17 to 21 September 2025 (40 minutes by car from the city centre). It is an exhibition under FIP patronage and registrations are possible until the end of January 2025 with the respective national commissioner for the usual exhibition classes. Three subclasses are mentioned for philatelic literature (monographs and research papers, magazines and periodicals, and catalogues). However, there is no mention of a group of digital publications. The information on the exhibit fees is clearer: For each 1 frame in the competition class 100 US$, for participation in the 1-frame experimental class 130 US$ and for a literature exhibit 90 US$.
Literature exhibitors only have to submit one copy by 1 July 2025 at the latest, which they will not get back, but this does not comply with Rule 5 of the ‘Supplementary Rules’ of the new FIP regulations for literature from 2022.
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