Citizenship Acquisition & Naturalization
In 2024, 11,008 people gained Korean nationality through naturalization. KIRD breaks down general, simplified, and special naturalization, plus restoration and loss, by year, nationality, and age.
11,008
Naturalizations (2024)
2011–2024
Coverage
일반·간이·특별
Naturalization types
Source: MOJ immigration yearbooks, MOU, MOIS
Naturalization is a key signal of the shift from short-term stay to long-term settlement. Because the immigration yearbook stops counting people once they naturalize, KIRD adds the MOIS local-foreign-resident statistics as a sibling layer to show the cumulative number of naturalized citizens as well.