KIRD Korea Immigration Regional Dashboard

Data profilesSeptember 2026

Foreign Residents in South Korea

Profiles of the twenty nationalities with more than 20,000 resident foreigners in South Korea in 2024, and a page of the statistics people ask for most often. Each profile covers the size of the population over time, where it lives, its age and sex, the visas it holds, migration channels, naturalization, unauthorized stay, health, the origin country and community organizations.

Unless another source is named, figures come from the Korea Immigration Regional Dashboard (KIRD) dataset, built from the Ministry of Justice immigration yearbooks and the Ministry of the Interior and Safety foreign-resident statistics for 2006 to 2024 and openly deposited at https://doi.org/10.3886/E249944V1.

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Frequently Requested Statistics on Foreign Residents in South Korea

23 questions, from the number of foreign residents to refugees, languages and service organizations.

Spotlights by nationality

Ordered by the number of resident foreigners in 2024.

Korean-Chinese Immigrants643,277 residents in 2024Chinese Immigrants315,682 residents in 2024Vietnamese Immigrants305,936 residents in 2024Thai Immigrants188,770 residents in 2024American Immigrants170,251 residents in 2024Uzbek Immigrants94,893 residents in 2024Nepali Immigrants74,641 residents in 2024Indonesian Immigrants73,180 residents in 2024Filipino Immigrants70,392 residents in 2024Japanese Immigrants65,216 residents in 2024Cambodian Immigrants63,681 residents in 2024Mongolian Immigrants57,093 residents in 2024Myanmar Immigrants53,914 residents in 2024Kazakh Immigrants44,549 residents in 2024Korean-Russian Immigrants35,984 residents in 2024Taiwanese Immigrants35,838 residents in 2024Sri Lankan Immigrants35,792 residents in 2024Russian Immigrants33,268 residents in 2024Bangladeshi Immigrants31,220 residents in 2024Canadian Immigrants28,604 residents in 2024