Intra-company Transferee

The status code is D7, and it covers Staff transferred to a Korean office after at least one year of service at the foreign head office or a branch.

People registered under the Intra-company Transferee (D7) status number 1,089, which is 0.1% of all registered foreigners. Compared with 1,477 in 2015, 10 years earlier, that is a decrease of about 26.3%. The largest nationalities are China at 30.8%, Japan at 15.8%, and United States at 14.8%. They are found in 105 districts, and the largest counts are Yongsan-gu with 118, Mapo-gu with 95, and Jung-gu with 81.

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook on Immigration and Foreign Policy 2025 (registered foreigners by status of stay, registered foreigners by status of stay and district)

Note: the status families are exactly as the yearbook groups them. The overseas Korean status (F-4) does not appear on this page. Its holders file a place-of-residence report rather than a foreign-resident registration, so they are outside the registered foreigner statistics; they are not absent from the country. On the staying basis they were the largest single status in 2025, at 556,288.

Table 1.Key indicators and benchmarks, 2025Unit: persons, places, %

Year 2025

Indicators	Intra-company Transferee	All registered foreigners	Relative to total
People	1,089	1,604,920	0.1% of the total
Nationalities counted	56	192	29.2% of the total
Districts of residence	106	250	42.4% of the total

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook (registered foreigners by status of stay, registered foreigners by status of stay and district).

Intra-company Transferee ranks #7 by size within the D group.

Table 2.Registered foreigners by status family, 2025Unit: persons, %

Year 2025

Family	Persons	Share
F family, residence, family, and overseas Koreans	589,527	36.7
E family, employment	493,577	30.8
D family, study, training and investment	341,450	21.3
H group, Visiting Employment and Working Holiday	84,971	5.3
G group, other	61,380	3.8
Outside the families, other statuses	34,015	2.1

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook (registered foreigners by status of stay).

The 6 groups sum to 1,604,920, the same as all registered foreigners.

Note: a family is the sum of the statuses inside it, so adding a family together with its individual statuses counts the same people twice.

The jade bar is the D group, the group Intra-company Transferee falls under.

Figure 1.Intra-company Transferee and all of the D group, 2006–2025Unit: 10,000 persons

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook, each year.

Putting the status and the group on one axis shows the share Intra-company Transferee takes within the D group.

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Year	Intra-company Transferee	all of the D group	Share of family
2006	1,492	113,288	1.3
2007	1,464	96,970	1.5
2008	1,362	104,091	1.3
2009	1,469	107,492	1.4
2010	1,504	125,674	1.2
2011	1,630	123,072	1.3
2012	1,543	105,912	1.5
2013	1,627	106,745	1.5
2014	1,566	111,537	1.4
2015	1,477	120,257	1.2
2016	1,619	135,996	1.2
2017	1,320	151,887	0.9
2018	1,280	176,863	0.7
2019	1,375	194,874	0.7
2020	1,016	168,845	0.6
2021	993	178,836	0.6
2022	1,118	217,267	0.5
2023	1,098	250,374	0.4
2024	1,030	291,006	0.4
2025	1,089	341,450	0.3

Table 3.By nationality Intra-company Transferee top 10 countries, 2025Unit: persons, %

Year 2025

Rank	Nationality	Persons	Within Intra-company Transferee	Within nationality
1	China	335	30.8	0.1
2	Japan	172	15.8	0.6
3	United States	161	14.8	0.4
4	India	97	8.9	0.6
5	Taiwan	31	2.8	0.2
6	Indonesia	28	2.6	0.0
7	Russia	25	2.3	0.1
8	Vietnam	23	2.1	0.0
9	Italy	21	1.9	1.4
10	United Kingdom	18	1.7	0.3
11	Other countries (46)	178	16.3	-

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook (registered foreigners by status of stay and nationality).

The within-nationality column is the share of that country's registered foreigners who hold Intra-company Transferee.

Table 4.Intra-company Transferee top 10 districts, 2025Unit: persons, %

Year 2025

Rank	District	Intra-company Transferee	Share of local foreigners
1	Seoul Yongsan-gu	118	0.9
2	Seoul Mapo-gu	95	0.8
3	Seoul Jung-gu	81	0.8
4	Incheon Jung-gu	44	0.8
5	Seoul Jongno-gu	43	0.4
6	Gyeongsangnam-do Geoje-si	37	0.2
7	Seoul Seodaemun-gu	36	0.2
8	Gyeonggi-do Suwon-si Yeongtong-gu	33	0.3
9	Ulsan Dong-gu	30	0.3
10	Gyeonggi-do Suwon-si Paldal-gu	28	0.2

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook (registered foreigners by status of stay and district).

Note: In the district file, Intra-company Transferee totals 1,089, the same as the nationwide count.

Table 5.Composition of statuses within the D group, 2025Unit: persons, %

Year 2025

Status	Persons	Within group
Student(D2)	219,127	64.2
General Trainee(D4)	85,238	25.0
Job Seeker(D10)	21,933	6.4
Corporate Investment(D8)	8,518	2.5
Trade Management(D9)	2,650	0.8
Religious Worker(D6)	1,778	0.5
Intra-company Transferee(D7)	1,089	0.3
Industrial Trainee(D3)	931	0.3
Journalism(D5)	128	0.0
Culture & Arts(D1)	58	0.0

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook on Immigration and Foreign Policy (registered foreigners by status of stay).

Note: the teal bar is the status you selected. Selecting a status outside a family shows that status alone.

Figure 2.By province, Intra-company Transferee, 2025Unit: persons

Year 2025

Count range

Note: The boundaries are shapes simplified for display and are drawn as pen lines. The fill values are the provincial totals from the yearbook and do not depend on the shapes.

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook (registered foreigners by district and status of stay), summed to the province level.

Note: The map shades the 17 provinces, and the same values are also held for the 250 districts.

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Province	Intra-company Transferee	Share of national
Seoul	550	50.5
Gyeonggi-do	163	15.0
Busan	86	7.9
Gyeongsangnam-do	81	7.4
Incheon	66	6.1
Chungcheongbuk-do	34	3.1
Ulsan	32	2.9
Jeollanam-do	22	2.0
Jeju-do	16	1.5
Chungcheongnam-do	10	0.9
Daegu	8	0.7
Daejeon	8	0.7
Gyeongsangbuk-do	6	0.6
Jeollabuk-do	4	0.4
Gangwon-do	2	0.2
Sejong	1	0.1