# South Korea license plate: Electric

> The South Korea electric license plate: format 999999, for example 623589, 2017 to today, car. What each character means, its sizes and sources.

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

![South Korea license plate, Electric (2017 to today)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/kr/kr-electric/south-korea-license-plate-electric.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `999999` (9 any digit) |
| Years | 2017 → today |
| Class | electric |
| Issued for | car |
| Plate size | 520 × 110 mm |
| Colours | background #B9D9F2; characters #393D45; band #0E4FA0 on the left |
| 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-electric` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/south-korea/electric) |

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.

| Code | Stands for | English |
|---|---|---|
| `허` | 대여사업용 | rental-business vehicle |
| `하` | 대여사업용 | rental-business vehicle (added by 2019) |
| `호` | 대여사업용 | rental-business vehicle (added by 2019) |

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 2의 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)

## 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.

## Use it

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

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