Korea Standard Time (KST, Korean: 한국 표준시 韓國標準時 Han-guk pyojunsi) is the standard time zone in North and South Korea and is 9 hours ahead of UTC (UTC+09:00): i.e., when it is midnight (00:00) UTC, it is 9 am (09:00) Korea Standard Time. Korea does not currently observe daylight saving time but has experimented with it in the past.[1][2] Korea Standard Time is the same as Japan Standard Time, Indonesian Eastern Standard Time and Irkutsk Time.