South Korea license plate: Diplomatic short
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 example607-113(9 any digit)The same seven-word decode as the long diplomatic plate, with the word spaced across the top line: 외교 for diplomats down to 대표 for other missions. The two digit groups stay undecoded, no published rule says what they mean.
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
- 335 × 155 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- The two-line diplomatic plate for vehicles that cannot take the 520 mm strip.
- About the format
- Two-line plate: line 1 is the hangul word spread across the width (외 교), line 2 is 321-678 with a drawn hyphen.
Legal basis and sources
- Annex 7 drawing: 주한·외교공관·공관원 자동차 번호판 335x155 mm, two lines, word at 34 mm on line 1, digits at 60 mm on line 2, sample 외교 321-678 https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/flDownload.do?flSeq=158474389
- Art. 4(1)1(나); Art. 5(1) 외교용 rows 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-diplomatic-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-diplomatic-short")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/kr/kr-diplomatic-short.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/kr/kr-diplomatic-short/template.svg
