Immigrants account for over 5% of S. Korea's population in 2024

SEOUL -- People with a migration background accounted for more than 5 percent of South Korea's total population in 2024, marking a slight increase from the previous year, government data showed Monday.As of Nov. 1, 2024, there were 2.72 million people with a migration background in Korea, taking up 5.2 percent of the country's total population, according to the Ministry of Statistics and Data.The figure marked a 0.3 percentage point increase from the corresponding tally for 2023.This marks the first time the statistics ministry released a registration-based census survey on the population …READ FULL ARTICLE