Korea Standard Time (KST, Korean: 한국 표준시 韓國標準時 Han-guk pyojunsi) is the standard time zone in North and South Korea and is 9 hours ahead of UTC (UTC+09:00): i.e., when it is midnight (00:00) UTC, it is 9 am (09:00) Korea Standard Time. Korea does not currently observe daylight saving time but has experimented with it in the past. Korea Standard Time is the same as Japan Standard Time, Indonesian Eastern Standard Time and Irkutsk Time.
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