Which zone this page means. BST means British Summer Time (UTC+1) and also Bangladesh Standard Time (UTC+6). This page means the British zone, which applies from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October; the rest of the year the United Kingdom is on GMT. South Korea does not observe daylight saving, so KST applies all year. It shares an offset with Japan.
BST is behind KST by 8 hours today
On 19 August 2026, British Summer Time is on BST at UTC+01:00 and Korea Standard Time is on KST at UTC+09:00. The gap between them is 8 hours, with KST ahead. So 9:00 am in BST is 5:00 pm in KST, and 5:00 pm in BST is 1:00 am in KST. Going the other way, see KST to BST.
The gap is not constant, and that is the part that catches people out
British Summer Time is currently observing daylight saving and changes next on 25 October 2026, when clocks go back an hour. Korea Standard Time does not observe daylight saving at all, so the whole of the seasonal change comes from the BST side: the gap moves by an hour twice a year even though nothing changes in Korea Standard Time.
When you can actually both be at work
Taking a working day as 9:00 am to 5:00 pm local at each end, there are 0 overlapping hours in a normal day. There is none: the two working days do not touch at all, so any live meeting between British Summer Time and Korea Standard Time has to sit outside somebody's normal hours. The table above shows which end has the shorter stretch to give up.
Zone rules are set by legislation and change, sometimes at short notice. This page is built against tzdata 2026a, last reviewed 2026-08-18. Quarterly. Zone rules change by legislation, sometimes at short notice. Version and review date are shown on every zone page. The converter above reads your browser's own copy of the zone database, so if a rule has changed since this page was built the live answer follows the new rule.
Every convention used above — whether the start date counts, how month ends are clamped, which holidays close an office — is written out on the methodology page, including the daylight-saving rules behind the 8-hour gap above.