SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea saw its foreign population shrink by 3.2 percent in November last year from the previous year, the first such decline at least since 2006 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the interior ministry said Tuesday. According to a report by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, the number [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreigners staying in South Korea has registered remarkable growth over the past 30 years. According to a report released by Kang Dong-won, head of the state-run Migration Research and Training Center, the number of foreign residents in the country totaled about 2.5 million in 2019, about a [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Defying some claims that an increase in the number of foreign residents can have a negative impact on government finances, a recent study showed that such growth is not a big burden at all. A 1 percent increase in the number of foreigners in a municipal district turned out [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The foreign population in South Korea has fallen below the 2 million mark for the first time in over five years amid the new coronavirus pandemic, government data showed Tuesday. As of March, the total number of foreign residents here stood at around 1.99 million, down 9.2 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government plans to launch a new council of foreign residents Tuesday as part of efforts to improve their quality of life here. The council, the third of its kind, will comprise 30 residents aged 18 or older from 20 countries, including the United States, France, Japan, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The coronavirus has led to a decreasing number of foreign residents in South Korea, while the number of married immigrants now exceeds past records. The Ministry of Justice reported that as of September, the number of married immigrants – foreigners who have married to South Korean nationals – reached [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreigners, once concentrated in certain parts of Seoul, are now widely distributed across wider regions including Gyeonggi Province and other areas. The Chonnam National University Institute of Regional Geography reported a 8.1 percentage point decrease in foreigners living in Seoul between 2010 (30.8 percent) and 2018 (22.7 percent) in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of foreigners residing in South Korea exceeded 2.22 million as of November last year, marking an on-year increase of about 8 percent, government data showed Thursday. According to the data released by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, 2,216,612 foreigners were registered as residents nationwide, accounting [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Taekwondo Promotion Foundation is hosting a K-Stay Korean cultural experience program for foreign residents in the country through an online platform until December. K-Stay was first launched last year as a three-day program consisting of five taekwondo and Korean calligraphy classes at the Taekwondowon Center in Muju County, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The government of Seoul said Wednesday it has decided to include foreign residents in its disaster relief payout scheme linked to the coronavirus outbreak. In March, the Seoul Metropolitan Government extended 542.3 billion won (US$457 million) in emergency disaster relief funds to 1.6 million households earning less than the [...]