Stats agency to carry out foreigner-friendly survey for 2025 census

Korea will conduct a more foreigner-friendly survey for the 2025 census to cope with the country’s accelerated transition to a multicultural society, Statistics Korea said Thursday. Taken every five years, the census will be carried out from October to November. The number of foreign residents hit a record 2.65 million as of 2024, accounting for more than 5 percent of Korea’s population of 51.2 million. A total of 20 foreign languages will be available, up from 10 in 2020, in a planned survey on a sample group of 5 million households across the country. “These households will certainly include foreign residents, making it more crucial to have multiple languages ready,” the agency said. “We expect more people with various nationalities could participate in the survey without the language barrier.” The newly added 10 languages are Bengali, Burmese, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Lao, Malay, Sinhala, Ukrainian, Urdu and Uzbek. The existing 10 are English, Chinese, Japanese, Bahasa Indonesian, Khmer, Mongolian, Nepali, Russian, Thai and Vietnamese. The survey will consist of 55 categories, whichWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times