South Korea license plate: Diplomatic long
Issued today Documented since 2009. Diplomatic plates for car, 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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999-999, for example외교 321-678(9 any digit)The hangul is a word, not a syllable: 외교 for diplomats, 영사 for consuls, plus 준외, 준영, 협정, 대표, and 국기, which reads like "national flag" but abbreviates 국제기구, international organisation. What the hyphenated digits encode is nowhere published.
- 외교
- 외교관용 (diplomatic mission)
- 영사
- 영사용 (consular)
- 준외
- 준외교관용 (quasi-diplomatic)
- 준영
- 준영사용 (quasi-consular)
- 국기
- 국제기구용 (international organisation)
- 협정
- 기타외교용 (협정) (other diplomatic, agreement)
- 대표
- 기타외교용 (대표) (other diplomatic, representative)
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
- Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for car.
- Colours
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Characters
#FFFFFFBackground#1E2B57 - Size
- 520 × 110 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- THE DARK-NAVY DIPLOMATIC PLATE, and the only Korean plate that prints a separator glyph, a hyphen with its own 22.5 mm cell between two three-digit groups. It is also the only Korean plate whose hangul element is a WORD rather than a syllable and the only one where that element comes FIRST. The colour, 감청색, is given as a Munsell notation (7.5PB 2/8), not a coordinate, so the hex is an approximation and the notation is the claim. Six further diplomatic categories share the plate and are recorded as a variant. No decode of the digits is published: whether 321-678 encodes a mission is not stated in the notice and is not guessed here.
- About the format
- The hyphen here is REAL: Annex 8 draws it as a glyph with its own cell between the two three-digit groups.
Legal basis and sources
- Annex 8 drawing: 주한·외교공관·공관원 자동차 번호판 520x110 mm; horizontal chain 20 · 25.5 · 35.5 · 33.5 · 40 · 11 · 40 · 11 · 40 · 22.5 · 23.5 · 22.5 · 40 · 11 · 40 · 11 · 40 · 33 · 20 summing to 520; sample mark 외교 321-678 with a... https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/flDownload.do?flSeq=158474395
- Art. 4(1)1(나) colour and the seven-word list; Art. 5(1) table 외교용 rows https://www.law.go.kr/DRF/lawService.do?OC=test&target=admrul&ID=2100000256300&type=XML
- law.go.kr https://www.law.go.kr/DRF/lawService.do?OC=test&target=admrul&ID=2000000009069&type=XML
This plate in your app
The series id is kr-diplomatic-long. 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-diplomatic-long")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/kr/kr-diplomatic-long.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/kr/kr-diplomatic-long/template.svg
