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South Korea license plate: Non-commercial short

Issued today 2004 to today. Standard plates for car, bus, van, truck, and machine, issued by 국토교통부 (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, MOLIT). One of 21 South Korea license plates.

South Korea license plate, Non-commercial short (2004 to today), sample 39나2764
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Format, years and the law

Format
999999, for example 39나2764 (9 any digit)

Two digits of class code, 01 to 69 means a passenger car, then one hangul syllable from the 32-syllable private-use set (가 through 주), then the serial. Since the 2004 reform, nothing on this plate says where in Korea the car is from.

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

Years issued
2004 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, bus, van, truck, and machine.
Colours
Characters #393D45 Background #E4DFD8
Size
335 × 155 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE NATIONWIDE ("전국") PLATE, the 2004 reform, and still issued today. This is the plate that dropped Korean geography: before it, a private Korean plate opened with a province mark (서울, 경기 ...) and a car that moved house changed its number. 「자동차관리법 시행규칙」 제6조제2항 confines the mark to transport-business vehicles and carries the tag [전문개정 2004.12.6], amended by 건설교통부령 제415호 in force on promulgation, so the YEAR is primary. The commonly repeated first-issue day of 1 January 2004 is not: it would sit in a 건설교통부고시 outside law.go.kr's reach. This series remains OPEN because Art. 5(1)'s proviso exempts Annex 1 from the three-digit code, a car that physically cannot take a 520 mm plate still receives a seven-character 335x155 mm mark in 2026.
About the format
Digit skeleton only; printed mark is 39나2764 (Annex 1's own sample). Two class digits, hangul syllable, four serial digits, one line.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 시행규칙 제6조제2항, tagged [전문개정 2004.12.6]: the authority mark is required only on transport-business plates. 건설교통부령 제415호 부칙 ①: in force on promulgation, 2004-12-06 https://www.law.go.kr/DRF/lawService.do?OC=test&target=law&LM=%EC%9E%90%EB%8F%99%EC%B0%A8%EA%B4%80%EB%A6%AC%EB%B2%95%...
  2. 고시 제2009-812호 Art. 6 already carries the proviso '비사업용 및 대여사업용 ... 기호표시를 하지 아니하며', the region-less private plate was settled law by 2009 https://www.law.go.kr/DRF/lawService.do?OC=test&target=admrul&ID=2000000009069&type=XML
  3. Annex 1 drawing: 비사업용 보통 등록 번호판 335x155 mm, cells 45 45|49|45 45 45 45, character height 83 mm, sample mark 39나2764, NO authority mark https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/flDownload.do?flSeq=158474239
  4. Art. 5(1) proviso keeping Annex 1 on two digits; Art. 6 proviso https://www.law.go.kr/DRF/lawService.do?OC=test&target=admrul&ID=2100000256300&type=XML

Before and after

South Korea license plate, Regional non-commercial (1996 to 2004) It replaced Regional non-commercial 1996 to 2004

This plate in your app

The series id is kr-noncommercial-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-noncommercial-short")'
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