South Korea license plate: Commercial short
Issued today Documented since 2009. Taxi plates for car, bus, van, and truck, issued by 국토교통부 (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, MOLIT). One of 21 South Korea license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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999999, for example953276(9 any digit)Stacked, not shrunk: the top line carries the province mark and the class digits, the bottom line the transport-business syllable (바, 사, 아, 자 or 배) and the serial. Same decode as the long yellow plate.
The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- Documented since 2009; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Taxi: for-hire vehicles where separately serialized or colored. Issued for car, bus, van, and truck.
- Colours
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Characters
#393D45Background#FFBC00 - Size
- 335 × 170 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- The two-line commercial plate for vehicles that cannot take the 520 mm strip. Its 170 mm height against Annex 1's 155 mm is a reliable tell in photographs.
- About the format
- Digit skeleton only. TWO-LINE plate: line 1 is the authority mark then the two class digits (서울 39), line 2 is the hangul use syllable then the four serial digits (바2764). The skeleton concatenates them in reading order.
Legal basis and sources
- Annex 3 drawing: 자동차 운수 사업용 보통 등록 번호판 335x170 mm, two lines, line 1 서울 39 at 48 mm, line 2 바2764 at 92 mm https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/flDownload.do?flSeq=158474365
- Art. 4(1)2, Art. 5(1), Art. 6 https://www.law.go.kr/DRF/lawService.do?OC=test&target=admrul&ID=2100000256300&type=XML
This plate in your app
The series id is kr-commercial-short. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of South Korea's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/kr \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "kr-commercial-short")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/kr/kr-commercial-short.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/kr/kr-commercial-short/template.svg
