List of South Korean flags

This is a list of flags used in South Korea, during from 1945 to the present.

National flags

Date	Use	Description
000000001948-08-15-0000August 15, 1948 – October 15, 1949	Civil and state flag and ensign of the First Republic of South Korea.	This flag was designed by the first National Assembly.
000000001949-10-15-0000October 15, 1949 – October 1997	Civil and state flag and ensign of the First Republic of South Korea.	This flag was designed by the Ministry of Education and Culture in October 1949. The exact colors were not specified.
October 1997 – present	Civil and state flag and ensign of the 6th Republic of South Korea.	In October 1997, the South Korean government officially specified the exact colors to be used on the flag via presidential decree.

National government flags

Date	Use	Description
1967 – present	Presidential Standard	Two phoenixes taking golden Hibiscus syriacus under their wings
1988 – present	Standard of the prime minister	Golden Hibiscus syriacus inlaid in symbolic Hibiscus syriacus insignia
March 2016 – present	Flag of the national government	Symbolic Taeguk insignia, with wordmark in Korean 대한민국정부 ("National Government of the Republic of Korea").
1949 (original) – 1988 (design update) – March 2016	Flag of the national government	Symbolic Hibiscus syriacus insignia, inlaid with the words 정부 ("National Government").

Military flags

Date	Use	Description
1946 – present	Flag of the army	Insignia of the army on a field parted per fess; above is white, below is blue.
1955 – present	Naval jack (maritime flag)	Taegeuk on crossed anchors in a white canton on a blue field
1951 – present	Flag of the marine corps	The similarity with the flag of the United States Marine Corps shows the strong influence of the United States since the creation of South Korean armed forces.
1951 – 2005	Old roundel of the air force	Used until the 2000s
2005 – present	Roundel of the air force	Used after the 2000s

Korean coast guard flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	2005 – present	Flag of the Korea Coast Guard	This flag has three diagonal lines of red, yellow, and blue.

Historical flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1946 – 1996	Old flag of Seoul	The circle in the center of the emblem represents a street and the octagonal symbol stands for the eight mountains surrounding Seoul.

Minorities

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1976 – 1979	Flag of the South Korean People's Front Preparation Committee	Similar to the flag of North Korea

Provincial-level division flags

Name	Geocode	Description
Busan	KR-26	Flag of Busan since March 28, 1995
North Chungcheong Province	KR-43	Flag of North Chungcheong Province
South Chungcheong Province	KR-44	Flag of South Chungcheong Province
Daegu	KR-27	Flag of Daegu since October 10, 1996
Daejeon	KR-30	Flag of Daejeon
Gangwon	KR-42	Flag of Gangwon Province
Gwangju	KR-29	Flag of Gwangju
Gyeonggi Province	KR-41	Flag of Gyeonggi Province since 2006
North Gyeongsang Province	KR-49	Flag of North Gyeongsang Province
South Gyeongsang Province	KR-49	Flag of South Gyeongsang Province
Incheon	KR-28	Flag of Incheon
Jeju	KR-49	Flag of Jeju Province since July 2006
North Jeolla Province	KR-45	Flag of North Jeolla Province
South Jeolla Province	KR-46	Flag of South Jeolla Province
Sejong City	KR-50	Flag of Sejong City
Seoul	KR-11	Flag of Seoul
Ulsan	KR-31	Flag of Ulsan

North Korean provincial flags

As the South Korean government claims the territory of North Korea as its own, provincial flags also exist for the North Korean provinces that are claimed by South Korea. The following are flags of the five Korean provinces located entirely north of the Military Demarcation Line as according to the South Korean government, as it formally claims to be the sole legitimate government of the entire Korean Peninsula.

Name	Geocode	Description
North Hamgyeong Province	- (KP-09)	Flag of North Hamgyeong Province, claimed by South Korea
South Hamgyeong Province	- (KP-08)	Flag of South Hamgyeong Province, claimed by South Korea
Hwanghae Province	- (KP-05 and KP-06)	Flag of Hwanghae Province, claimed by South Korea
North Pyeongan Province	- (KP-03)	Flag of North Pyeongan Province, claimed by South Korea
South Pyeongan Province	- (KP-02)	Flag of South Pyeongan Province, claimed by South Korea

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