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Statuses of stay number 29, and the groups that hold them number 6.

Arts & Entertainment

The status code is E6, and it covers Income-earning work in music, fine art, literature and other arts, and in show business and entertainment.

People registered under the Arts & Entertainment (E6) status number 4,224, which is 0.3% of all registered foreigners. Compared with 4,469 in 2015, 10 years earlier, that is a decrease of about 5.5%. The largest nationalities are Philippines at 38.6%, Japan at 12.2%, and Russia at 5.3%. They are found in 166 districts, and the largest counts are Gangnam-gu with 436, Dongducheon-si with 369, and Pyeongtaek-si with 321.

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, %
2025
IndicatorsArts & EntertainmentAll registered foreignersRelative to total
People4,2241,604,9200.3% of the total
Nationalities counted10919256.8% of the total
Districts of residence16625066.4% of the total

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

Arts & Entertainment ranks #6 by size within the E group.

Table 2.Registered foreigners by status family, 2025Unit: persons, %
2025
FamilyPersonsShare
F family, residence, family, and overseas Koreans589,52736.7
E family, employment493,57730.8
D family, study, training and investment341,45021.3
H group, Visiting Employment and Working Holiday84,9715.3
G group, other61,3803.8
Outside the families, other statuses34,0152.1

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 E group, the group Arts & Entertainment falls under.

Figure 1.Arts & Entertainment and all of the E group, 2006–2025Unit: 10,000 persons

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook, each year.

Putting the status and the group on one axis shows the share Arts & Entertainment takes within the E group.

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YearArts & Entertainmentall of the E groupShare of family
20063,863257,3161.5
20073,781241,7141.6
20084,160242,0561.7
20094,083241,0711.7
20103,995266,3741.5
20113,696285,2571.3
20124,032282,9421.4
20134,465300,7731.5
20144,593326,2961.4
20154,469332,3461.3
20163,945335,4381.2
20173,383333,4201.0
20183,346336,1981.0
20193,231332,0251.0
20202,753291,4140.9
20213,030273,4991.1
20223,607322,0801.1
20234,302400,0331.1
20244,013455,3070.9
20254,224493,5770.9
Table 3.By nationality Arts & Entertainment top 10 countries, 2025Unit: persons, %
2025
RankNationalityPersonsWithin Arts & EntertainmentWithin nationality
1Philippines1,63238.63.0
2Japan51412.21.8
3Russia2235.31.0
4China2105.00.1
5United States1924.50.5
6Brazil1463.59.4
7Mongolia1112.60.3
8France1032.41.9
9Ukraine952.23.7
10Thailand751.80.2
11Other countries (99)92321.9-

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 Arts & Entertainment.

Table 4.Arts & Entertainment top 10 districts, 2025Unit: persons, %
2025
RankDistrictArts & EntertainmentShare of local foreigners
1Seoul Gangnam-gu4367.1
2Gyeonggi-do Dongducheon-si3698.3
3Gyeonggi-do Pyeongtaek-si3210.9
4Busan Dong-gu1939.8
5Seoul Gwanak-gu1530.8
6Seoul Yongsan-gu1511.2
7Seoul Mapo-gu1231.0
8Jeju-do Jeju-si1190.6
9Gyeongsangnam-do Geoje-si1120.7
10Seoul Seongdong-gu1091.3

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

Note: In the district file, Arts & Entertainment totals 4,224, the same as the nationwide count.

Table 5.Composition of statuses within the E group, 2025Unit: persons, %
2025
StatusPersonsWithin group
Non-professional Employment(E9)336,71368.2
Specially Designated Activities(E7)81,72316.6
Seasonal Worker(E8)31,6096.4
Crew Employment(E10)20,9204.2
Foreign Language Instructor(E2)12,8642.6
Arts & Entertainment(E6)4,2240.9
Researcher(E3)3,3650.7
Professor(E1)1,7290.4
Specialized Occupation(E5)2210.0
Technical Instructor(E4)2090.0

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, Arts & Entertainment, 2025Unit: persons
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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    ProvinceArts & EntertainmentShare of national
    Seoul1,57837.4
    Gyeonggi-do1,21128.7
    Busan2957.0
    Gyeongsangnam-do2926.9
    Jeju-do2024.8
    Daegu1393.3
    Incheon1182.8
    Gyeongsangbuk-do1122.7
    Ulsan501.2
    Chungcheongnam-do471.1
    Gangwon-do471.1
    Jeollabuk-do300.7
    Jeollanam-do290.7
    Daejeon250.6
    Gwangju230.5
    Chungcheongbuk-do220.5
    Sejong40.1