🇰🇷 Flag: South Korea emoji

What flag is 🇰🇷?

🇰🇷 is the flag emoji for South Korea.

What does 🇰🇷 mean?

🇰🇷 is officially named flag: South Korea. It represents South Korea as the Unicode CLDR region identified by KR, and it can mark the place, its people or teams, travel, location, public events, news, or regional identity.

The sequence can accompany the written place name or stand alone in a location-aware message. Related flag pages include 🇰🇵 Flag: North Korea and 🇰🇼 Flag: Kuwait.

Other meanings

Beyond a literal label for South Korea, it can indicate a personal or family connection, a route or destination, heritage, regional sport, public celebrations, diplomacy, or current affairs. A flag symbol alone does not establish citizenship, residence, or political endorsement.

Example Usage

The itinerary includes South Korea 🇰🇷

Today’s update concerns South Korea 🇰🇷

More details

Officially named flag: South Korea. Its regional-indicator sequence is U+1F1F0 U+1F1F7, spelling region code KR. It was introduced in Emoji 1.0.

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Visual description

On supporting platforms, 🇰🇷 is drawn as white with a red-and-blue yin-yang symbol in the center; a black trigram (kwae) from the ancient I Ching (Book of Changes) is in each corner of the white field.

Emoji vendors may simplify coats of arms, seals, text, stars, or other fine details and can vary proportions, shading, wave effects, and corners. Unsupported systems may show the separate regional letters KR instead.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.

Flag emojis are often drawn as a "wavy rectangle" with flat vertical lines and curved horizontal lines representing a flag in the wind. Some emoji sets use standard rectangles, rectangles with curved corners or circles.