South Korea Vehicle Ownership Transfer Registration (자동차 이전등록신청서)

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice.

Current claim

• status: draft
• verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
• verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-07-06

The document was derived from a directly-downloaded primary-source PDF: the Motor Vehicle Registration Enforcement Rule's own gazetted "Transfer Registration Application" form, extracted with a genuine text layer (not OCR), cross-checked against several secondary administrative sources. It remains draft, not verified, pending an independent second reviewer's field-by-field pass and, ideally, a live walkthrough of the Car365 online channel by a reviewer who holds a Korean digital certificate.

Why this document exists

This cycle (GOV-1400, the recurring GovSchema Standard Research routine) was scoped to close a DMV/vehicle-registration gap in one of the registry's thinner jurisdictions (AE, BR, MX, KR). South Korea already has Passport, Visa, Taxes, Voter Registration, National ID (reissuance), and a driving licence schema, but no vehicle registration schema at all — this document opens that gap.

Two candidates were scouted per the cycle's priority order:

• South Korea vehicle registration via Car365 (car365.go.kr) — chosen. The portal's own guidance pages are public and unauthenticated; actual online submission requires a Korean digital-certificate/mobile-carrier/ financial-certificate login, but the underlying application form itself is separately published, in full, as a gazetted attachment form on law.go.kr — a genuinely public, field-level, primary legal-text source with no login wall at all. Of the three plausible sub-processes (new registration, change-of-particulars, transfer), transfer registration (이전등록) was picked: it is the highest-volume, most-cited vehicle civil transaction on every source consulted, has the richest and best-documented conditional-attachment logic (five distinct registration-reason branches), and multiple independent secondary sources (see below) describe it in enough procedural detail to sanity-check the primary form against.
• Brazil first driving licence (CNH / "primeira habilitação") — rejected as a dead end. Every source found describes a process gated behind a gov.br SSO login from the very first step (downloading the "CNH do Brasil" app and filing an initial Requerimento through it), followed by in-person biometric/medical/psychological exams and a state-fragmented DETRAN portal for scheduling (DETRAN-SP, DETRAN-RJ, DETRAN-PE, etc. each with their own gov.br-authenticated online-services page). No federal, unauthenticated, field-level source was found for the RENACH form itself (SENATRAN's technical resolutions describe the card's security/biometric specifications, not the application form's fields). Left as a backlog candidate only if a future cycle finds a state DETRAN with a genuinely public field list (untested this cycle beyond the federal layer).

Sources examined

• Document (id, version): kr/molit/vehicle-ownership-transfer-registration / 1.0.0
• Spec version: GovSchema 0.3.0
• Authority: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT)
• Primary source (directly retrieved, HTTP 200, genuine text layer, extracted in full with pdfjs-dist's getTextContent, not OCR): <https://law.go.kr/LSW/flDownload.do?gubun=&flSeq=137678345&bylClsCd=110202> — 자동차등록규칙 [별지 제14호서식] <개정 2018. 12. 19.> 이전등록 신청서 ("Transfer Registration Application", Attached Form No. 14 of the Enforcement Rule on Motor Vehicle Registration), published by the National Law Information Center (law.go.kr). Two pages: front (applicant-facing fields plus the administrative-information consent block) and back (attachment list, fee note, acquisition-tax exemption checkboxes, and usage notes including the statutory filing deadlines).
• Secondary sources, used only to corroborate and to fill two gaps the primary form itself does not state (see judgment calls below), never to introduce a field not traceable to the primary form or a stated legal cross-reference:
  • https://www.car365.go.kr/ccpt/cvlcpt/guid/detailGuidance.do?cvlcptCd=4 — Car365's own guidance page for this process (channel choice, eligibility preconditions, high-level document categories by transaction type).
  • https://www.car365.go.kr/ccpt/cvlcpt/guid/documentView.do — Car365's downloadable-forms index, confirming this is the form used and listing its official Korean title.
  • <https://www.gov.kr/mw/AA020InfoCappView.do?HighCtgCD=A09006&CappBizCD=15000000370> — the Ministry of the Interior and Safety's gov.kr (정부24) civil-service listing for this exact process: fee, processing time, application channels, and a required-documents summary that includes the vehicle registration certificate (자동차등록증) — not found on the primary form itself, see judgment calls.
  • https://www.seongnam.go.kr/city/1000857/10633/contents.do — Seongnam city's vehicle-registration service page: statutory filing deadlines and late-filing penalty amounts by registration-reason category (used to corroborate, not to source, the deadlines already stated in the primary form's own 유의사항 item 3), plus the same 자동차등록증 requirement.
  • https://www.gangnam.go.kr/board/B_000060/3729/view.do?mid=ID03_010104 — Gangnam-gu's service page, itemising seller/buyer document requirements by transaction type in plain administrative language (사망, 법원경매, 법인합병 sub-cases), used to sanity-check that the primary form's five registrationReason values are the same taxonomy this and other district offices use operationally.
  • http://www.freeforms.co.kr/view/d4-form100-002989.html — a private forms-directory page (fetch failed with ECONNREFUSED this cycle; not relied on).
• Retrieved / reviewed: 2026-07-06
• Reviewer: GovSchema Engineering (initial authoring source-review)

Extraction method

1. Located the form via web search cross-referencing car365.go.kr's own downloadable-forms listing (which names the form but serves it through a JavaScript-driven download action with no static href reachable from a plain fetch) against law.go.kr's own attached-form archive, which serves the same gazetted form directly as a downloadable file at a stable flDownload.do?flSeq=... URL — no login, CAPTCHA, or JavaScript interaction required.
2. Fetched the PDF directly and confirmed it has a genuine embedded text layer (not a scanned image) using pdfjs-dist's getTextContent() (the same technique already used for kr/mois/resident-registration-card-reissuance and every ZA SARS ITR14 schema in this registry): every field label, checkbox option, attachment-list item, fee note, and usage note on both pages was extracted and read verbatim in Korean.
3. Cross-read the Car365 guidance page and gov.kr's civil-service listing to confirm this is the correct, current, single canonical form for this process (both explicitly name and link the same form/process), and to surface the vehicle-registration-certificate requirement the primary form's own two pages are silent on (see judgment calls).
4. Cross-read the Seongnam, Gangnam-gu, and Jeonju district-office pages to confirm the statutory deadlines already stated on the primary form's own back page (유의사항 item 3), and to confirm the five registrationReason values map onto the same real-world transaction taxonomy (sale, gift, court-ordered/judgment transfers, inheritance, other) these operationally closer-to-the-counter sources describe independently.
5. Walked the schema's own logic by hand against five illustrative scenarios (sale, gift, court-commissioned/auction, inheritance, agent-filed) to confirm every requiredWhen on documents[] produces the correct attachment set for that scenario — see Mock-data conformance check below. The live Car365 online wizard itself was not walked interactively: its first meaningful screen past the guidance page requires a Korean digital-certificate/mobile-carrier/financial-certificate login this cycle had no means to exercise, consistent with GOVERNANCE.md's prohibition on submitting or authenticating on anyone's behalf.

What was confirmed directly (verbatim, from the primary PDF's text layer)

• Every front-page field: 구 소유자(양도인)/신 소유자(양수인) 성명(명칭), 주민등록번호(법인등록번호), 사용본거지(차고지); 전자우편; (휴대)전화번호; 자동차등록번호; 주행거리(km); 신자동차등록번호; 등록원인 (다섯 개 체크박스: 매매/증여/촉탁/상속/기타); 신청인 성명/생년월일; and the 행정정보 공동이용 동의서 consent block.
• All six numbered attachment-list items on the back page (자동차양도증명서; 양도인의 인감증명서/본인서명사실확인서/전자본인서명확인서 발급증, with its own three stated exceptions; 증여증서; 매각결정서; 확정판결 등본; 위임장 및 신분증명서 사본), each item's own stated triggering condition, and the fee note (KRW 1,000, or 1,500 when filed outside the vehicle's own city/province).
• The four acquisition-tax exemption checkbox categories on the back page (disabled person Grade 1-3; national-merit person disability rating Grade 1-7; May 18 Democracy Movement injured person Grade 1-14; Agent Orange after-effects patient) and their legal basis (지방세특례제한법).
• The statutory filing deadlines and legal basis for late-filing penalties (유의사항 item 3: sale 15 days from purchase, gift 20 days from receipt, inheritance 6 months from the end of the month of death, other 15 days from the triggering event; 자동차관리법 제81조제2호, 제85조제1항) — recorded in this document's field/document descriptions as prose, since GovSchema's v0.3 field/Condition model has no deadline/date-arithmetic construct (the same limitation already documented in mx/inm/forma-migratoria-multiple-electronica's VERIFICATION.md for its 180-day-stay rule).
• The email/phone usage note (유의사항 item 4) stating both fields are optional and used only for vehicle-management notices such as recalls.

Interpretive judgment calls flagged for an independent reviewer

1. vehicleRegistrationCertificate is sourced from secondary pages, not the primary form. — RESOLVED at the GOV-1403 review gate: the original required: true claim did not check out and has been corrected to required: false. The primary form's own two pages (front declaration, back 제출서류/확인사항 lists) never mention 자동차등록증 as something the applicant submits (only the office's own internal 자동차등록원부 ledger record, in 확인사항 item 4 — a distinct document). The review gate independently re-fetched all three cited secondary sources directly and found none of them actually establish this as an unconditionally required applicant submission: Seongnam's own service page lists it under 기본서류 but explicitly annotates it '미제출 가능' (submission may be omitted); car365's official 구비서류 table requires it only in the specific sub-case where the registration number/plate itself is being changed (등록번호를 변경하는 경우 — visit-only, not available online); and neither the Ministry of the Interior and Safety's gov.kr civil-service listing nor Gangnam-gu's service page list it as a required document at all. The original claim of a "transferor-applies exception" stated by the secondary sources was also not found in any of them. Corrected to required: false in schema.json, with the handling and sourceRef text rewritten to reflect what the sources actually say.
2. auctionSaleDecisionDocument and certifiedJudgmentCopy's mapping onto registrationReason: courtCommission. — CONFIRMED at the GOV-1403 review gate. The primary form's attachment list states each document's own triggering condition (Article 26(3) authority-ordered auction; judgment-based ownership transfer) but never explicitly cross-references either condition to one of the five 등록원인 checkbox values. 촉탁 (literally "commission" or "official request") was chosen as the best-fit mapping for both, since both describe an authority formally directing the registration act rather than a private-party sale/gift/inheritance. The review gate independently re-fetched car365's own 구비서류 table and Gangnam-gu's district service page and found both use the literal term 이전등록촉탁서 ("transfer-registration commission document") specifically in their court/authority-directed transaction categories (car365's 공매 and 법원경락(경매) categories; Gangnam-gu's 법원경매 category) — direct corroboration that 촉탁 is the registry's own term of art for court/authority-commissioned registrations, not 기타. No change made.
3. applicationFiledByAgent is a synthetic gating field, not a form checkbox, introduced only to drive the agentPowerOfAttorneyAndId document's requiredWhen, mirroring the precedent set by mx/inm/forma-migratoria-multiple-electronica's applicantIsMinor for the same class of "the form's own attachment list states a condition with no corresponding data field" gap.
4. applicantDateOfBirth's individual/corporate ambiguity is left unresolved, matching this registry's general practice of describing a source's own ambiguity rather than silently resolving it: the primary form asks for the applicant's 생년월일 unconditionally, but a corporate applicant has no date of birth. No field exists to distinguish an individual from a corporate applicant, so this is described in the field's own description rather than modelled with a fabricated gate.
5. registrationFee's two-tier amount (KRW 1,000 / 1,500) is only partially expressible. The documents[].amount shape is a single fixed value in this spec version; the higher, different-city/province amount is recorded as descriptive prose instead, the same class of limitation mx/inm/forma-migratoria-multiple-electronica's VERIFICATION.md records for its own offset-arithmetic date rules.
6. Downstream acquisition tax and licence-plate fees are out of scope. Seongnam's page states a 4-7% acquisition tax (assessed separately by the local tax office, not this form) and a KRW 22,000-34,000 licence-plate fee when a new plate is issued; neither is a line item on this application form itself, so neither is modelled — consistent with this registry's practice of not modelling a separately administered downstream fee (the same treatment br/pf/passport-application gives its own after-the-fact, separately paid fee).
7. The three stated exceptions to transferorIdentityVerificationDocument being required (dealer-brokered sale; court-auction transaction proof submitted instead; in-person transferor confirmation at the counter) are described in the document's own description rather than encoded as a requiredWhen condition, since none of the three has a corresponding field in this document (there is no "is this a dealer-brokered sale?" field, for example) — the same treatment given to comparable narrowing notes in kr/mois/resident-registration-card-reissuance's reissuanceFee entry.

Mock-data conformance check (Phase 4)

A fabricated, non-submitting mock application packet lives at conformance/kr/molit/vehicle-ownership-transfer-registration/1.0.0/application-packet.json (+ .txt rendering): a private used-car sale between two fictitious individuals in Seongnam, filed by the buyer (transferee) without an agent, claiming no acquisition-tax exemption. This scenario, plus four documented variants, were each hand-evaluated against every field's requiredWhen and every documents[].requiredWhen to confirm the branch produces the correct field/document set:

1. Sale (this packet) — vehicleTransferCertificate and transferorIdentityVerificationDocument correctly required; giftDeed/auctionSaleDecisionDocument/certifiedJudgmentCopy correctly not required; agentPowerOfAttorneyAndId correctly not required (applicationFiledByAgent: false).
2. Gift — giftDeed correctly required; vehicleTransferCertificate and transferorIdentityVerificationDocument correctly not required.
3. Court-commissioned (auction) — auctionSaleDecisionDocument and certifiedJudgmentCopy correctly required together (see judgment call 2: both share the same registrationReason value, so both are required whenever it is selected, even though in practice only one would apply to a given real case — flagged as an acknowledged over-inclusion following from judgment call 2's mapping, rather than silently narrowed further without a source basis).
4. Inheritance — none of the five reason-specific documents required; only the always-required vehicleRegistrationCertificate and registrationFee apply, alongside the base field set.
5. Agent-filed sale — applicationFiledByAgent: true correctly adds agentPowerOfAttorneyAndId to the required-document set on top of scenario 1's documents.

vehicleRegistrationCertificate and registrationFee were confirmed required in all five scenarios (both are unconditional required: true entries). All five scenarios were also checked against tools/validate.mjs and tools/validate-ajv.mjs for the schema document itself (structural validity, not the mock data, which this registry's tooling does not separately schema-check against fields/documents — the by-hand requiredWhen walk above is this cycle's substitute for that).

What is out of scope for v1.0.0

• The live Car365 online submission wizard — login-gated behind a Korean digital certificate/mobile-carrier/financial-certificate credential; not walked interactively this cycle (see Extraction method step 5).
• New (first-time) vehicle registration and change-of-particulars registration — both are separate gazetted forms ([별지 제7호서식]/ [별지 제11호서식] respectively) with their own field sets; only the transfer-registration form is modelled here. Left as open backlog candidates for a future KR DMV-vertical cycle.
• Downstream acquisition tax assessment and licence-plate issuance — see judgment call 6.
• Brazil's "primeira habilitação" (first driving licence) — scouted this cycle and found gov.br-SSO-gated from the first step, with no federal, unauthenticated, field-level source; see "Why this document exists" above. Left as an open backlog candidate only if a future cycle finds a genuinely public state-DETRAN source.

Path to a verified claim (next step)

To advance this document to status: verified, a reviewer needs to independently re-download the same law.go.kr form (confirming no newer gazetted revision has superseded [별지 제14호서식]'s 2018-12-19 version), re-check every sourceRef against the extracted text directly, ideally resolve judgment call 2 (now corroborated, see above) by walking the live Car365 wizard with an authenticated Korean digital certificate to see its own registrationReason-to-document mapping first-hand, and confirm the two-tier fee amount and downstream tax/plate-fee figures are still current. Judgment call 1 was resolved at the GOV-1403 review gate (required: false).

Re-verification

Per the practice's Cadence, nextReviewBy is set to 2027-01-06 (~6 months): this is the registry's first Vehicle Registration/DMV-vertical schema for South Korea and the first schema in this registry sourced primarily from a gazetted attachment form corroborated by several independent city/district administrative pages rather than a single authoritative guide or live wizard, so the shorter end of the cadence is appropriate until the two flagged judgment calls (documents 1 and 2 above) are independently confirmed. Re-check the source, and confirm no newer form revision has been gazetted, on or before that date and on any source.url change.