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South Korea has low immigration due to restrictive immigration policies resulting from strong opposition to immigrants from the general Korean public. [1] However, in recent years with the loosening of the law, influx of immigrants into South Korea has been on the rise, with foreign residents accounting for 4.9% of the total population in 2019. [2]
The number of international students in Korea is 181,842. [3] In 2023, South Korean government announced its five-year plan to attract 300,000 international students. Its main content is to lift the Korean language reguirement for college admission, expand internship and employment opportunities, and establish a quick visa system. [4]
The Employment Permit System has been extended to 15 countries at the time of the enforcement of the Employment Permit System in 2004. Workers, mainly from Central and South-East Asia, are allowed to fill low-paid jobs in small and medium-sized enterprises which are not filled by Korean workers.
For those foreigners who do come to South Korea to work, Digital Nomad World, a website that keeps track of trends for remote workers, says that the average person will spend $2,050 per month to ...
This is a list of visas issued by South Korea. The government of South Korea, through the Ministry of Justice's "Korea Immigration Service," issues one of these visas to all non-citizens entering the country. In 2005, 5,179,848 visas were issued, not including military and landing-permit visas, a slight increase over the previous year.
The British embassy in Seoul performs a sustaining role in the diplomatic relations between South Korea and the United Kingdom, dealing with political, economic, and cultural interaction between the two nations, and also offers visa services to Koreans and other nationals in the Republic of Korea.
The second-biggest group of foreigners in South Korea are migrant workers from Southeast Asia [7] and increasingly from Central Asia (notably Uzbekistan, mostly ethnic Koreans from there, and Mongolians), and in the main cities, particularly Seoul, there is a small but growing number of foreigners related to business and education.
There were more foreign-national women (65 percent) marrying South Korean men than foreign men (20 percent) tying the knot with South Korean women. South Korean men marrying foreign brides were at least more than 10 years older than their brides. Many of South Korean husbands were 45 or older while their brides were in the late 20s on average.