South Korea license plate: Non-commercial 7 long heavy
Retired Documented 2009 to 2021. Standard plates for bus, van, truck, and machine, 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 example978420(9 any digit)The class digits do the talking: 70 to 79 bus or van, 80 to 97 goods, 98 to 99 special. From September 2019 to November 2021 Korea issued seven- and eight-character plates side by side, so two leading digits after 2019 simply mean "not a passenger car".
The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- Documented 2009 to 2021; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for bus, van, truck, and machine.
- Colours
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Characters
#393D45Background#E4DFD8 - Size
- 520 × 110 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- The same Annex 2 plate on non-passenger vehicles, which kept the two-digit code for a further two years after cars lost it. Its existence is why "Korean plates went to eight characters in 2019" is a half-truth: between September 2019 and November 2021 Korea issued seven-character and eight-character non-commercial plates side by side, distinguished purely by vehicle type.
- About the format
- Digit skeleton only; printed mark 70가1234 (bus), 80가1234 (goods), 98가1234 (special).
Legal basis and sources
- Annex 2 drawing https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/flDownload.do?flSeq=158474297
- 고시 제2019-423호 Art. 5(1) table image flSeq=44282120, buses/goods/special still on 70-79 / 80-97 / 98,99 AFTER the 2019 passenger reform https://www.law.go.kr/DRF/lawService.do?OC=test&target=admrul&ID=2100000180990&type=XML
- law.go.kr https://www.law.go.kr/DRF/lawService.do?OC=test&target=admrul&ID=2100000204502&type=XML
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is kr-noncommercial-7-long-heavy. 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-noncommercial-7-long-heavy")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/kr/kr-noncommercial-7-long-heavy.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/kr/kr-noncommercial-7-long-heavy/template.svg
