[Graphic News] Vietnam tops list of international students in Korea

Vietnam has become the largest source of international students at South Korean universities, narrowly surpassing China.

The Ministry of Education and the Korean Educational Development Institute said in the seventh edition of the report Reading Our Education Through Data that Vietnam accounted for 75,198 international students enrolled at Korean universities as of April 2025, compared with 74,820 from China, a difference of just 378 students.

The report said South Korea had 403 universities and ...