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South Korea license plate: Non-commercial 8 film

Issued today 2020 to today. Standard plates for car, issued by 국토교통부 (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, MOLIT). One of 21 South Korea license plates.

The plate on almost every Korean car since mid-2020: reflective film, a holographic security grid across the face, and a blue left band with the taegeuk and KOR, Korea's answer to the EU band, a decade later, by its own statutory path.

South Korea license plate, Non-commercial 8 film (2020 to today), sample 123가4568
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Format, years and the law

Format
9999999, for example 123가4568 (9 any digit)

Three class digits (100 to 699, passenger car), one private-use syllable, four of serial. The blue taegeuk band is construction, not code, the syllable is the law, certifying the car is neither taxi, bus nor rental.

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2020 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car.
Colours
Characters #393D45 Background #E4DFD8
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE CURRENT KOREAN PRIVATE-CAR PLATE. Reflective-film construction with the blue taegeuk/KOR band, in force from 1 July 2020 by 고시 제2019-89호. Format identical to the painted Annex 2-1 plate that preceded it by ten months; the band, the hologram grid and the film construction are the difference, which is why this is its own series and not a variant. Old plates stay valid: 고시 제2018-529호 부칙 제2조 deems every plate fitted under the former provisions compliant.
Region code notes
Art. 6 proviso, non-commercial plates carry NO authority mark.
How numbers are issued
「자동차등록령」 제21조제1항: numbers are assigned 순서대로 (in sequence) within type and use; the proviso lets the registrant pick one of ten randomly drawn numbers within ranges the Minister sets. Intra-range allocation order is not published.
About the format
DIGIT SKELETON ONLY, see the SCRIPT LINE in this file's header. The printed mark is three class digits, one HANGUL syllable, four serial digits, with no separator: 123가4568.

Legal basis and sources

  1. law.go.kr https://www.law.go.kr/DRF/lawService.do?OC=test&target=admrul&ID=2100000176243&type=XML
  2. Art. 2(2), Art. 4(1)1(가), Art. 4(4)나, Art. 5(1) 100-699, Art. 6 proviso https://www.law.go.kr/DRF/lawService.do?OC=test&target=admrul&ID=2100000256300&type=XML
  3. Annex 2-2 drawing: 520x110 mm, cells 65.0|50 50 50|85|50 50 50 50|20 = 520.0 exactly, the band GRAPHIC itself 56.3 mm wide with 1.28 mm to the first character cell, character height 85 mm, band with taegeuk and KOR,... https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/flDownload.do?flSeq=158474359
  4. Art. 4(4)나 KS T 3507 white chromaticity corners https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/flDownload.do?flSeq=150966219

Before and after

South Korea license plate, Non-commercial 7 long (documented 2009 to 2019) It replaced Non-commercial 7 long documented 2009 to 2019

This plate in your app

The series id is kr-noncommercial-8-film. 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-8-film")'
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