South Korea license plate: Temporary short plate

Issued today Documented since 2009. Temporary 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, Temporary short plate (documented since 2009), sample 68444

Format, years and the law

Format
99999, for example 68444 (9 any digit)

Same decode as the long temporary plate: the literal 임, head syllable of 임시, "temporary", followed by five permit digits, on the compact blank for vehicles that cannot take the strip.

임
임시운행 (temporary operation)

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

Years issued
Documented since 2009; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, bus, van, truck, and machine.
Colours
Characters #282828 Background #F2F2F2
Size
335 × 155 mm · every country's size
About this plate
The eleven-days-or-more temporary plate in the compact 335 x 155 mm size.
About the format
Digit skeleton only; printed mark 임01234 on a 335x155 mm plate.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Annex 9 drawing: 허가 기간이 11일 이상인 임시운행 허가 번호판 335x155 mm, 임 at 79.5 mm cell, five digits at 45 mm, issuer 경기도지사 https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/flDownload.do?flSeq=158474401
  2. Art. 2(3), Art. 4(3) https://www.law.go.kr/DRF/lawService.do?OC=test&target=admrul&ID=2100000256300&type=XML

This plate in your app

The series id is kr-temporary-short-plate. 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-temporary-short-plate")'