Talk:Vehicle registration plates of South Korea

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[edit] Stub wishlist

Things I'd like to see:

• corrections from people who actually live there. Some of what I wrote may be incorrect, as it's all based on info from English-speaking plate collectors which I did find to have mistakes (many described the number in the top line of pre-2006 plates as a vehicle size class a la Japanese license plates, but it's apparently not exactly so).
• clarifications and filled-in gaps:
  • What did pre-1970s plates look like? Were plates used during the Japanese occupation of Korea just Japanese designs?
  • What are the two symbols on the new "wave" plates? One appears to be a holographic(?) official seal (tax disc?), the other is some sort of stylized eumyang(?) with a motto around it.
• photos and diagrams. I have yet to see a photo of a 2006+ plate in the flesh aside from a widely circulated picture of a police car [1]. All the pictures I've seen of the private car "wave" style are artists' renderings.
• those little novelty plate things[2] - what are they? In my research, I've constantly run into them for sale on Korean websites. They seem to be made alternately of plastic or embossed metal, with enough spaces at the bottom for a phone number (some of them have little cartoon cell phones). Some of the plastic ones are clear with LED "glow" lighting. Sometimes they'll have a little konglish slogan at the top like "I'm parking!"

AKADriver 20:02, 5 April 2006 (UTC)