7 out of 10 'multicultural' marriages in Korea involve foreign wives

More than 70 percent of multicultural marriages in South Korea last year involved foreign wives and Korean husbands, and husbands in over one-third of such unions were at least a decade older than their wives, government data showed Friday. According to the Ministry of Data and Statistics, marriages between Korean men and foreign women accounted for 71.4 percent of the country's 21,399 multicultural marriages in 2025, while marriages between Korean women and foreign men made up 18.9 percent. The