More than 1 Million Foreigners in South Korea

Yet, every time a Korean sees us, the stares and whispers of "foreigner" come like it's the first time they saw us in their entire life!

This is the first time the foreign population here went over 1 million.

According to the article:

The number of foreigners based in Korea has exceeded one million for the first time, up 24 percent, or 215,543, from the previous year, a survey said Wednesday.

According to the one-month study conducted in May by the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, there are currently 1,106,884 foreigners residing in the nation, accounting for 2.2 percent of the nation's entire population of 49,593,665.

Chinese nationals topped the list with 624,994. Americans came in a bit further down with 59,870.

Check out the article here.