# South Korea license plate: Commercial long

> The South Korea commercial long license plate: format 999999, for example 249813, documented since 2009, car, bus, van, and truck.

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Part of [South Korea license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/south-korea) (21 registration series).

![South Korea license plate, Commercial long (documented since 2009)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/kr/kr-commercial-long/south-korea-license-plate-commercial-long.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `999999` (9 any digit) |
| Years | ~2009 → today (documented from 2009; the format is likely older) |
| Class | taxi |
| Issued for | car, bus, van, truck |
| Plate size | 520 × 110 mm |
| Colours | background #FFBC00; characters #393D45 |
| Rear plate differs from the front | no |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `kr-commercial-long` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/south-korea/commercial-long) |

The only current Korean plate that still says where a vehicle is registered: every taxi, route bus and hire truck carries a province mark that private cars left behind in 2004.

The only current Korean plate with geography: two syllables name the province, two digits the class, and 바, 사, 아 or 자 mark transport business — 배 joined them by 2019 and is popularly read as the parcel-van syllable, though the notice never says so.

| Code | Stands for | English |
|---|---|---|
| `바` | 자동차운수사업용 일반용 | transport business — taxi, route bus, hire truck |
| `사` | 자동차운수사업용 일반용 | transport business |
| `아` | 자동차운수사업용 일반용 | transport business |
| `자` | 자동차운수사업용 일반용 | transport business |
| `배` | 자동차운수사업용 일반용 | transport business — added by 2019; folk-read as the delivery syllable |

Sources:

- [Annex 4 drawing: 자동차 운수 사업용 보통 등록 번호판 520x110 mm, cells 32|55(authority)|55 55|71|55 55 55 55|32, character height 83 mm, authority syllables 55 mm each, sample 서울52바3108](https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/flDownload.do?flSeq=158474371)
- [Art. 4(1)2 (yellow ground, black characters), Art. 5(1) 일반사업용 ranges, Art. 6 main clause](https://www.law.go.kr/DRF/lawService.do?OC=test&target=admrul&ID=2100000256300&type=XML)
- [시행규칙 제6조제2항 — the authority mark is MANDATORY on transport-business plates, rental excepted](https://www.law.go.kr/DRF/lawService.do?OC=test&target=law&LM=%EC%9E%90%EB%8F%99%EC%B0%A8%EA%B4%80%EB%A6%AC%EB%B2%95%20%EC%8B%9C%ED%96%89%EA%B7%9C%EC%B9%99&type=XML)
- [law.go.kr](https://www.law.go.kr/DRF/lawService.do?OC=test&target=admrul&ID=2000000009069&type=XML)

## About this plate

THE YELLOW COMMERCIAL PLATE, and the only current Korean plate that tells you where the vehicle is registered. Do NOT read a yellow plate as a rental car: rentals are white and region-less (Art. 6 proviso) and use 허/하/호.

## About the format

Digit skeleton only; printed mark is 서울52바3108 (Annex 4's own sample), two-syllable authority mark, two class digits, hangul use syllable, four serial digits.

## Other taxi plates here

- [Commercial large](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/south-korea/commercial-large) (documented since 2009)
- [Commercial short](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/south-korea/commercial-short) (documented since 2009)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/kr/kr-commercial-long.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/south-korea?series=kr-commercial-long
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/kr` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "kr-commercial-long"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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