South Korea Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples
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South Korea Address Format Guide
In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the standard address format used in South Korea. Whether you’re shipping packages, sending mail, or validating addresses for your business, understanding the proper address structure is essential for successful deliveries. We’ll cover the basic elements, provide examples, and explain how GeoPostcodes can help with address validation.
South Korea - Address Format
An address format in South Korea contains the following elements:
- Recipient’s name
- Business or department name (if applicable)
- House number and Street name
- City Name and Postal Code (5 digits)
- Country – SOUTH KOREA (in all caps)
John Smith
1001 Jungang-daero
Busan 47545
SOUTH KOREA
South Korea Address Format Examples
Example 1:
John Smith
71-6 Hwajeon-dong
Jeonju-si 54804
SOUTH KOREA
Example 2:
South Korea Post Office
70 Sogong-ro
Seoul 04535
SOUTH KOREA
Postal and Country Information for South Korea
| Country/territory name | South Korea | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISO codes | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: KR ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: KOR ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 410 | |||||
| Administrative area count | 17 | |||||
| Administration area names and abbreviations |
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| Term to describe postal codes | 우편번호 | |||||
| Postal code format | 99999 | |||||
| Population | 51 552 840 | |||||
| Total land area | 100 811km² | |||||
How to Validate Addresses for South Korea Using GeoPostcodes Database
GeoPostcodes offers comprehensive address validation database to validate South Korea addresses. Our database ensures addresses follow the correct format for South Korea, reducing delivery errors and improving efficiency.
Use GeoPostcodes:
- Address Database to validate Street Names, Cities, and Postal Codes in South Korea
- Postal Database if you only need to validate Cities, and Postal Codes in South Korea
- Population Database if you would like to do urban/rural mapping or compute how many people live in South Korea segmented by postal code, city or administrative divisions
You can leverage GeoPostcodes data to validate addresses in South Korea using:
- Street column to validate Street names
- Region 1 column to validate City Names*
- Postcode column to validate Postal Codes
*If Region 1 is Jeonbuk, Gyeongsangnam, Jeollanam, Chungcheongbuk, Chungcheongnam, Gyeonggi or Gyeongsangbuk, use Region 2 to validate the City Names.
Explore our South Korea address database.