This information may change. Always check the official source.Last verified: August 2026 by Ondřej Kadlec
Sockets and voltage in South Korea
Type CCEE 7/16 (Europlug)No earth
Type FCEE 7/3 (Schuko)Earthed
Voltage
220 V
Frequency
60 Hz
Earthed sockets
Type F
220 V at 60 Hz. Sockets are Schuko, the same as Germany.
What you need, by where you are coming from
Arriving from the United States or CanadaA plug adapter, and appliances marked 100-240 V. Anything single-voltage needs a converter.
Arriving from the UK or IrelandA plug adapter is enough - the voltage is the same as at home.
Arriving from most of continental EuropePlugs go straight in and the voltage matches. Nothing to pack.
Arriving from Australia or New ZealandA plug adapter is enough - the voltage is the same as at home.
Socket types, voltage and frequency are the nominal domestic supply as published in IEC/TR 60083 and the national standards it lists.
Korean sockets are Schuko Type at 220 V - the country finished converting from 110 V in 2005, so old adapters in a drawer are no guide.
Sockets in South Korea are Type and at 220 V, 60 Hz - the German Schuko outlet, on an American frequency.
The country used to run at 110 V. The conversion to 220 V finished in 2005, so anything you remember or read from before then is out of date, and the old flat-pin sockets are gone from ordinary housing.
A Europlug and a Schuko plug both fit. European travellers need no adapter at all, which is unusual this far east.
American, British and Australian plugs need one. The 60 Hz supply does not change that.
220 V is the trap for American appliances, which fit nothing here anyway but will be destroyed through an adapter unless marked 100-240 V.
Convenience stores sell adapters and most hotels keep a few at the desk.
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