New driver's licenses being issued from September will show vital information in English on the rear side, which will allow Koreans to use them in at least 30 countries.

The Korea Road Traffic Authority on Sunday said the licenses will also feature symbols that are internationally recognized to designate the vehicle type a driver is authorized to handle. They will also have new anti-forgery features such as special characters and holographic images.

The U.S., Japan and 95 other signatories to the Vienna Treaty recognize each others' driver's licenses, but Koreans have so far had to apply for a separate international driver's license when they wanted to drive abroad that was only valid for a year because their own license was only in Korean.

Korea has separate agreements with the U.K. and 66 other countries to recognize Korean driver's licenses if they have been translated and notarized. But that requires a visit to the embassies of the respective countries.

