Tesla has begun pushing firmware 2026.20.7.5, the build that carries FSD (Supervised) v14 Lite to South Korea. Tracked from 6 August 2026, it is the first time the cut-down Hardware 3 branch has been released to a market outside North America — and the eligibility rule attached to it is more interesting than the feature list.
What Korean cars actually get
The build mirrors the wide-release 2026.20.6.10 that went to US owners in July, bringing capabilities that were simply absent in the region until now.
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Speed Profiles | Sloth, Chill, Standard and Hurry, selectable from the self-driving visualisation |
| Start Self-Driving from Park | Engage FSD from a parked position via an on-screen button |
| Unparking and reversing | The car can pull out of a space and reverse under FSD |
| Brake Confirm toggle | Skip the brake-pedal confirmation step when starting from Park |
| Responsiveness | Improved merges and forks, pedestrian handling, traffic lights and cut-in scenarios |
None of that is new code in the absolute sense. It is the North American v14 Lite package arriving in a market that had been left on an older branch.
The eligibility rule is the actual story
FSD Lite in Korea is restricted to Hardware 3 Model 3 and Model Y cars with an active FSD (Supervised) subscription or a purchased FSD package — and, critically, to US-built vehicles only. Cars with a VIN beginning 5YJ qualify; Shanghai-built cars carrying an LRW VIN do not, pending a separate regulatory approval track.
That restriction is far more severe than it sounds. Tesla now supplies South Korea's Model 3 and Model Y almost entirely from Giga Shanghai, and Chinese-built cars have become the largest single source of imported vehicles in the country. The eligible pool is therefore not "Korean Teslas" but the older, US-sourced cars imported before that switch — a shrinking legacy minority in a market where the Model Y outsells every other car outright.
The tracking data reflects it. Days after release, 2026.20.7.5 sat at effectively 0% of the tracked fleet, with a handful of cars reported installed.
Still HW3, still supervised
v14 Lite remains what it has been since the branch first appeared in 2026.20.5.1: the HW4 v14 stack distilled down to fit AI3's lower camera resolution and compute budget, using the newer hardware's behaviour as a teacher. It is supervised, hands-ready driving under Korea's intelligent-vehicle regulations, not a step toward autonomy on legacy hardware. HW3 owners elsewhere have also found the branch demanding on the older computer, with reports of Autopilot units running hot enough to fault.
Why European owners should watch this one
Europe's HW4 cars sit on the merged EU branch established with FSD v14.2.2.6, and HW3 cars here have no v14 Lite at all. The Korean release matters as a precedent rather than a preview: it shows Tesla clearing FSD approval not just market by market, but build-origin by build-origin.
European cars come off the lines in Berlin and Shanghai. If regulators continue to treat factory of origin as a separate approval question, the Korean pattern is the one that determines how quickly a European approval turns into software on European cars.