The number of new naturalized Korean citizens exceeded 11,000 last year, the highest since the Covid-19 pandemic years, the Ministry of Justice said Wednesday.
In Korea, the children of multicultural families are now entering adulthood with college degrees, higher incomes and deeper roots — challenging old prejudices in a country long seen as ethnically homogenous.
Over 200,000 people from 110 countries around the world are naturalized as Korean citizens, but the related system is still lacking.
The people of Korea were once soldiers or had family members who were soldiers. As a result, the people of Korea are very sensitive when it comes to the subject of fair and just participation of mandatory military service. But...
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