Korean Address in English
Convert a Korean address into English for overseas forms (MOIS Juso API).
Your query is sent to the Ministry of the Interior's juso.go.kr API to fetch results and is not stored on Calqu's servers.
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Where does this English address come from?
The English address shown here is the official romanization provided by Korea's Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS) road-name address API, based on the road name and building number. Use it as a reference for international mail, overseas shopping, visa paperwork, and similar needs.
Detail address (dong/ho/floor/basement) conversion rules
| Input (Korean) | Result |
|---|---|
| 101동 | 101-dong |
| 202호 | 202-ho |
| 3층 | 3F |
| 지하1층 | B1 |
This conversion follows common conventions and is not an official standard. Parts that can't be auto-converted are left in Korean with a "please verify" note, and you can edit the preview field directly.
Road-name romanization rules
Romanizing Korean road names and place names isn't left to individual judgment — it follows the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's Romanization of Korean notice and MOIS's English road-name address guidelines. Consonants and vowels are transliterated phonetically (e.g. ㄱ→g/k, ㄴ→n, ㅓ→eo), while road-type words like '로/길' aren't translated by meaning but appended as fixed suffixes, -ro and -gil. Wider roads marked '대로' get -daero to distinguish them from a regular '로'. The same rule applies to administrative unit names (city/district/dong): '중구' becomes Jung-gu, '중동' becomes Jung-dong — the romanized name plus its administrative suffix.
Why is the English order reversed?
A Korean address reads largest to smallest (province → city/district → road name → building number), while an English address reads the opposite way, smallest to largest. The building number and road name come first, followed by the district/dong, and finally the province/city. "서울특별시 중구 세종대로 110" becomes 110 Sejong-daero, Jung-gu, Seoul in English. Simply translating each word while keeping the Korean word order can confuse international mail routing, so it's safest to use this tool's automatically reordered result as-is.
What goes in each international form field?
Overseas shopping sites and airlines typically split address forms into Address Line 1/2, City, Province (State), ZIP, and Country. Here's how this tool's "International form fields" section fills each one.
| Field | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Address Line 1 | Detail address (if any) + road name/number | Auto-wraps to Line 2 past 40 chars |
| Address Line 2 | Overflow remainder | Left blank for short addresses |
| City | The city/district portion | Second segment of the English address |
| Province/State | The province portion | Last segment of the English address |
| ZIP | 5-digit postal code | As provided by juso.go.kr |
| Country | Republic of Korea | Fixed value |
Field names vary slightly by site (e.g. State/Province/Region) — use the closest match from the table above.
Before using it on an official document
For international mail, customs, visas and other official documents, always reconfirm the current official form with juso.go.kr or the receiving institution before submitting.