South Korea flag emoji 🇰🇷
🇰🇷 is the flag of South Korea, ISO code KR. Copy it here.
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About the South Korea flag emoji
🇰🇷 is the flag of South Korea: a red and blue taegeuk circle on white surrounded by four black trigrams. Like every country flag, the South Korea emoji is really two regional indicator letters, K and R, spelling the ISO code KR; side by side, KR merge into the South Korea flag. Windows has no flag artwork, so there KR appears as the letters K R. South Korea was one of the ten original flag emoji (2010); KR renders on every major platform except Windows. Copy KR from the card; the flag emoji hub groups South Korea with the other Asia flags, such as Cambodia, listed beside South Korea.
Unicode name: flag: South Korea · U+1F1F0 U+1F1F7 · Emoji 0.6 (original set) · group: Flags.
How people use it
- National pride: South Korea (KR) next to a name, a result or a holiday post, Korea style
- Travel: a trip to South Korea, a photo location, or a “from → to” bio with KR
- Language: KR as shorthand for the language of South Korea in menus, captions and bios about South Korea
- Sport: team line-ups, match threads and medal tables for KR, South Korea
- In other languages: Spanish Corea del Sur, French Corée du Sud, German Südkorea
Compare the options
| Emoji | Name | Use it for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| flag: South KoreaU+1F1F0 U+1F1F7 | KR: the South Korea flag | ISO code KR | |
| flag: CambodiaU+1F1F0 U+1F1ED | Near South Korea: code KH | Asia, like South Korea | |
| flag: TaiwanU+1F1F9 U+1F1FC | Near South Korea: code TW | Asia, like South Korea | |
| flag: ThailandU+1F1F9 U+1F1ED | Near South Korea: code TH | Asia, like South Korea |
Korean flag emoji and other Korean emojis
The Korean flag emoji is 🇰🇷, the flag of South Korea (ISO code KR). It is the only emoji made for Korea itself; everything else people call “Korean emojis” is a standard emoji that has picked up a Korean association, or text borrowed from the Korean alphabet.
- 🫰 hand with index finger and thumb crossed: the finger heart made famous by K-pop idols and Korean dramas — see the finger heart emoji
- 🍜 steaming bowl and 🍚 cooked rice: ramyeon and rice in food chats
- 🥢 chopsticks and 🎤 microphone: dinner out, then a noraebang (karaoke) night
- ㅋㅋㅋ and ㅠㅠ: Hangul letters used like emoticons, for laughing and for crying eyes
Questions people ask
What flag is 🇰🇷?
🇰🇷 is the flag of South Korea — a red and blue taegeuk circle on white surrounded by four black trigrams.
How do I type the South Korea flag emoji?
Search “South Korea” in the emoji keyboard’s Flags section, type :flag_kr: in Discord or Slack, or copy KR from this page: it is the regional indicators K and R.
Why does the South Korea flag show as letters?
Windows has never shipped flag images, so the South Korea flag becomes the letters K R there; every other major platform draws KR.
Is there a Korean flag emoji?
Yes: 🇰🇷 is the flag of South Korea, and it is what keyboards return for “Korean flag”. Copy it from the card at the top of this page.
About this guide
Written and maintained by the Emoji Directory editorial team, without ads or sponsorship. Meanings describe how the emoji is commonly used in public posts and messages, not an official definition. Names, code points, versions, keywords and translations come from the Unicode Emoji 18.0 and CLDR data; shortcodes from the gemoji project. Last reviewed . Spotted a mistake or a new usage? Tell us, or read how the directory is made.
