Date and time notation in South Korea - Wikipedia Date and time notation in South Korea The most formal manner of expressing the full date and / or time is to suffix each of the year, month, day, ante / post-meridiem indicator, hour, minute and second ( in this order, i.e. with larger units first ) with the corresponding unit and separating each with a space : 년 nyeon for year ; 월 weol for month ; 일 il for day ; 오전 ojeon for a.m. ; 오후 ohu for p.m. ; 시 si for hour ; 분 bun for minute ; and 초 cho for second. For example, the ISO 8601 timestamp 1975 - 07 - 14 09 : 18 : 32 would be written as `` 1975 년 7 월 14 일 오전 9 시 18 분 32 초 ''. The same rules apply when expressing the date or the time alone, e.g., `` 1975 년 7 월 14 일 '', `` 1975 년 7 월 '', `` 7 월 14 일 '', `` 14 일 오전 9 시 18 분 '' and `` 오전 9 시 18 분 32 초 ''. The national standard ( KSXISO8601, formerly KSX1511 ) also recognizes the ISO - 8601 - compliant date / time format of YYYY - MM - DD HH : MM : SS, which is widely used in computing and on the Korean internet. Date In written documents, the date form above ( but not the time ) is often abbreviated by replacing each unit suffix with a single period ; for example, 1975 년 7 월 14 일 would be abbreviated as `` 1975. 7. 14. '' ( note the trailing period and intervening spaces ). Time Both the 12 - hour and 24 - hour notations are widely used in Korea. 12 - hour clock is predominantly used in informal daily life, and the ante / post-meridiem indicator is often omitted where doing so does not introduce ambiguity. Half past the hour is commonly -- especially in spoken Korean -- abbreviated as 반 ban, which literally means `` half '' ; for example, 13 : 30 is either expressed as `` 오후 1 시 30 분 '' or `` 오후 1 시 반 ''. When the time is expressed in the HH : MM : SS notation, the Roman ante / post-meridiem indicators ( AM and PM ) are also used frequently. In addition, they sometimes follow the convention of writing the Korean - style indicator before the time ; it is not uncommon to encounter times expressed in such a way, e.g., `` AM 9 : 18 '' instead of `` 9 : 18 AM ''. Two words, 정오 jeong - o and 자정 jajeong, are sometimes used to indicate 12 : 00 and 0 : 00 respectively -- much in the same way the English words noon and midnight are used. The 24 - hour notation is more commonly used in text and is written `` 14 : 05 '' or `` 14 시 5 분 ''. Examples include railway timetables, plane departure and landing timings, and TV schedules. In movie theaters it is also not uncommon to see something like 25 : 30 for the 01 : 30 AM movie. Date and time notation in Asia Sovereign states Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor ( Timor - Leste ) Egypt Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen States with limited recognition Abkhazia Artsakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan Dependencies and other territories British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands Hong Kong Macau This South Korea - related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Date_and_time_notation_in_South_Korea&oldid=815928455 '' Categories : Time in South Korea Date and time representation by country South Korea stubs Hidden categories : Articles containing Korean - language text All stub articles Talk About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 18 December 2017, at 03 : 31 ( UTC ). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: how do they write the date in korea
Answer: the year, month, day, ante/post-meridiem indicator, hour, minute and second (in this order, i.e. with larger units first) with the corresponding unit and separating each with a space