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1 in 10 marriages in Korea last year was with a foreign national
As overall marriage numbers fall, the proportion of those between Koreans and foreign nationals is on the rise
According to 2022 statistics on multicultural demographic trends released by Statistics Korea on Wednesday, there were 17,428 multicultural marriages — more specifically, marriages between a native Korean and a non-Korean or a naturalized Korean — last year.
The figure was up 25.1% from the year before, representing the biggest percentage increase since the Korean government began tracking the statistic in 2008.
Of these couples, 66.8% were composed of a Korean husband and foreign national wife, while 20.0% were composed of a Korean wife and a foreign national husband. Marriages between a Korean and a naturalized citizen made up 13.2%.
Out of men who married foreign nationals, the largest proportion (31.2%) were over the age of 45, while the largest proportion of women who married foreign nationals were between 30 and 34, at 24.6%.
Couples in which the husband was 10 or more years older than his wife made up 35% of unions.
