Foreign students in S. Korea top 500,000 for 1st time on Korean cultural boom

The number of foreigners coming to study in South Korea surpassed 500,000 for the first time last year, a more than sixfold increase over four years, driven by the global popularity of Korean pop culture, government data showed Thursday.Some 505,410 of the 18.94 million foreign visitors to South Korea last year entered for "study or training" purposes, accounting for 2.7 percent of all arrivals, according to the data from the Korea Tourism Organization released by Rep. Jin Sun-mee of the ruling Democratic Party.The figure marks a sharp rebound from just 80,084 in 2021, when the country was …READ FULL ARTICLE