A tidal change in Korean politics has led to Korea Post scrapping plans for stamps marking the 100th birthday of strongman Park Chung-hee.

Korea Post said Wednesday a committee of academics and professional philatelists put the issue to a vote, and eight opposed it while only three were still in favor. One abstained.

The same committee voted last year to issue the stamp. But at the time Park Geun-hye, his daughter, was still president, untainted by the corruption scandal that brought her down and raked up some of the more bizarre aspects of her father's reign.

