Foreign residents top 2 million in 2016, but multicultural marriages sink
Social affairsDec 12, 2017
The number of foreign residents in South Korea has more than doubled over the past decade, topping the 2 million mark in 2016, but multicultural marriages have dropped sharply, government data showed Tuesday. The number of non-Korean citizens totaled some 2.05 million as of end-December 2016, according to the data compiled by Statistics Korea.Their portion roughly accounted for 4 percent of the entire population. Of the 2.05 million foreigners, the number of Vietnamese nationals came to some 150