# South Korea license plate: Non-commercial short > The South Korea non-commercial short license plate: format 999999, for example 39나2764, 2004 to today, car, bus, van, truck, and machine. Page: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/south-korea/noncommercial-short · Markdown version of the HTML page, which is canonical. Site map: https://vehiclesdb.com/llms.txt · Terms of use: https://vehiclesdb.com/legal/terms Part of [South Korea license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/south-korea) (21 registration series). ![South Korea license plate, Non-commercial short (2004 to today)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/kr/kr-noncommercial-short/south-korea-license-plate-non-commercial-short.svg) | Fact | Value | |---|---| | Format | `999999` (9 any digit) | | Years | 2004 → today | | Class | standard | | Issued for | car, bus, van, truck, machine | | Plate size | 335 × 155 mm | | Colours | background #E4DFD8; characters #393D45 | | 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-noncommercial-short` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/south-korea/noncommercial-short) | Two digits of class code — 01–69 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. Sources: - [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%20%EC%8B%9C%ED%96%89%EA%B7%9C%EC%B9%99&type=XML) - [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) - [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) - [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) ## 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. ## Before and after | Relation | Series | Years | |---|---|---| | It replaced | [Regional non-commercial](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/south-korea/regional-noncommercial) | 1996 to 2004 | ## Other standard plates here - [Corporate green](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/south-korea/corporate-green) (2024 to today) - [Non-commercial 8 heavy film](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/south-korea/noncommercial-8-heavy-film) (2021 to today) - [Non-commercial 8 heavy paint](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/south-korea/noncommercial-8-heavy-paint) (2021 to today) - [Non-commercial 8 film](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/south-korea/noncommercial-8-film) (2020 to today) - [Non-commercial 8 paint](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/south-korea/noncommercial-8-paint) (2019 to today) - [Non-commercial large](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/south-korea/noncommercial-large) (2004 to today) - [Non-commercial 7 long](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/south-korea/noncommercial-7-long) (documented 2009 to 2019) - [Non-commercial 7 long heavy](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/south-korea/noncommercial-7-long-heavy) (documented 2009 to 2021) - [Regional non-commercial](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/south-korea/regional-noncommercial) (1996 to 2004) ## Use it - Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/kr/kr-noncommercial-short.svg - Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/south-korea?series=kr-noncommercial-short - API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/kr` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "kr-noncommercial-short"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api) --- Open data, CC BY 4.0: reuse it with a visible credit to VehiclesDB and a link (https://vehiclesdb.com/legal/attribution). 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