why do countries such as South Korea and China have latin numbers and letters on their license plates when their language doesn’t use them?

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Edit: Latin letters and numbers might not be the right word. I meant letters such as AaBbCc and numbers such as 123.

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Those are called Arabic numerals they’ve been heavily used world wide for centuries and are a international standard.

Latin script/ the English alphabet, is usually used as an extension of the numbering system if the alphabet of a country isn’t suitable. It’s not really letters for the sake of communicating in the native language.

Many countries do use there own alphabet for the letter part and it can actually be very difficult to deal with while travelling 😭 I can see why China would think a latin script was more convenient tho, considering they have sooo many characters in their script and the outline of them on a moving car or in a distance muat be hard to make out, especially with no context to guess like you would with written text. Other countries mostly did it for convenience, I think. They were adapting to change and just wanted to get cars on the road, then at some point it cost money for the gov to switch everyone over to a diff license plate system and they would rather spend it differently, why fix what’s not broke.