South Korea license plate: Electric
Issued today 2017 to today. Electric 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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999999, for example623589(9 any digit)Blue ground says electric; the characters still decode as a private car, class code, then a syllable from the private-use set. Rental EVs are expressly included, so this is the one blue plate where the rental syllables 허, 하 or 호 can appear.
- 허
- 대여사업용 (rental-business vehicle)
- 하
- 대여사업용 (rental-business vehicle (added by 2019))
- 호
- 대여사업용 (rental-business vehicle (added by 2019))
The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 2017 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Electric: EV-distinct plates or suffixes (German E, CN green plates). Issued for car.
- Colours
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Characters
#393D45Background#B9D9F2 - Size
- 520 × 110 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- THE BLUE EV PLATE, in force 9 June 2017, and the one place where this file's reading of the notice will surprise a Korean reader. Two textual facts point the same way and both are quoted above: Annex 18 item 1 fixes the plate's specification as "the same as the Annex 2 non-commercial ordinary plate", Annex 2 being the SEVEN-character 520x110 mm plate, and Article 5(1)'s proviso expressly names Annex 18 among the plates whose class code stays at 01-69 for passenger cars. The Annex 18 drawing agrees: its sample mark is 52가3108 and its cell layout leaves room for seven characters after the 35.8 mm taegeuk block on the left and the 35.2 mm EV pictogram on the right. So the instrument, read straight, says a Korean EV plate is a seven-character mark. Scope: Art. 1-3(4) gives the EV plate to electric vehicles other than transport-business, corporate-business and emergency vehicles, but expressly INCLUDES rental vehicles.
- About the format
- Digit skeleton only; the Annex 18 drawing's own sample mark is 52가3108, SEVEN characters, two class digits, hangul syllable, four serial digits. See the notes: this is not a transcription slip.
Legal basis and sources
- law.go.kr https://www.law.go.kr/DRF/lawService.do?OC=test&target=admrul&ID=2100000079151&type=XML
- Annex 18: 전기자동차 번호판 520x110 mm; item 1 '번호판의 규격 : [별표 2]의 비사업용 보통등록 번호판과 같음'; item 3 the twelve-row PANTONE table above; the 다.상징 문양 drawing with sample mark 52가3108 and the EV pictogram https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/flDownload.do?flSeq=158474493
- Art. 1-3(4) (which vehicles take the EV plate), Art. 2(5) (film construction MANDATORY for EV plates), Art. 4(5) (blue ground, black characters), Art. 5(1) proviso naming Annex 18 among the two-digit plates 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-electric. 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-electric")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/kr/kr-electric.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/kr/kr-electric/template.svg
