Korea Post
Government department | |
Industry | Logistics, distribution, finance |
Founded | July 1, 2000 |
Headquarters | Sejong City, South Korea |
Key people | Kim Junho (President of Korea Post) |
Products | National/international mail delivery and special handling, third-party logistics, insurance, banking/postal savings |
Revenue | 2,333,583,000,000 KRW (2013) |
Website | www.koreapost.go.kr |
Korea Post | |
Hangul | 우정사업본부 |
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Hanja | 郵政事業本部 |
Revised Romanization | Ujeong Sa-eob Bonbu |
McCune–Reischauer | Ujŏng Saŏp Ponbu |
Korea Post is the national postal service of South Korea, under the authority of the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, formerly Ministry of Knowledge Economy until 2013. Korea Post is in charge of postal service, postal banking and insurance services. Its headquarters is in the Sejong City.
Functions
Korea Post is charged with providing the following postal and financial services at post offices:
- Basic postal service (handling and delivering mail and parcels)
- Additional postal services (registered mail, customer pickup, sales of local products by mail order and postal errand service)
- Postal savings, money orders and postal giro
- Postal insurance
Organization
- Two divisions with four bureaus
- Affiliated agencies:
- Korea Post Officials Training Institute
- Korea Post Information Center
- Supply and Construction Office of Korea Post
- Regional Communications Offices in Seoul, Gyeongin, Busan, Chungcheong, Jeonnam, Gyeongbuk, Jeongbuk, Gangwon, Jeju
- 3,631 post offices
See also
- South Korean postal codes
- Post office
External links
- Korea Post (Korean) (English)
- ePost (Korean)
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