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South Korea license plate: Temporary short-term

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.

A wooden board with a hand-ruled red diagonal, six bare digits, and the permit's expiry date printed on its face, the one Korean plate that is neither metal nor embossed.

South Korea license plate, Temporary short-term (documented since 2009), sample 710059
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Format, years and the law

Format
999999, for example 710059 (9 any digit)

The one Korean serial with nothing to decode: six bare digits, no hangul, no use category. Identification rides on the face itself, the permit's expiry date, printed on a wooden board, for permits of ten days or less.

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 × 170 mm · every country's size
  • South Korea license plate, Temporary short-term 520×110 mm (documented since 2009)

    Temporary short-term 520×110 mm

    temporary · 520 × 110 mm

About this plate
THE WOODEN PLATE. For temporary-operation permits of TEN DAYS OR LESS, Article 2(1)'s proviso replaces the 1 mm aluminium blank with a wooden board of 2.5 mm or more, and Article 2(4) excuses it from embossing, the only Korean plate that is neither metal nor raised. Six digits, no hangul in the serial, and the permit's own expiry printed on its face.
About the format
Digit skeleton only, and this plate has NO hangul serial element at all, six digits alone. What it does carry, printed above the digits, is the PERMIT PERIOD as a date range, e.g. 05.09.05~09.14 까지 ("until"), and the issuing officer's title below.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Annex 11 drawing: 허가 기간이 10일 이하인 임시운행 허가 번호판 335x170 mm, date-range line '05.09.05~09.14 까지' at 30 mm, six digits at 74 mm, issuer 경기도지사 https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/flDownload.do?flSeq=158474413
  2. Art. 2(1) proviso (wooden board), Art. 2(4) (embossing excused), Art. 2(3) (Annexes 11 and 12), 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-shortterm. 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-shortterm")'
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