Map of Foreigners in South Korea
A choropleth map paints foreign-resident distribution across all 250 districts and finer towns. Pick a nationality or visa to map that group, and use the year slider to watch change over time.
250
Districts
3,500+
Towns (eup/myeon/dong)
2006–2024
Year range
Source: MOJ immigration yearbooks, MOU, MOIS
The map shows where foreign residents cluster and how industrial cities, rural seasonal-labor counties, and big-city enclaves differ. Compare foreign share, raw counts, diversity, segregation, and by-nationality / by-visa distributions through fixed color bins — a basis for local policy and service placement.