Reference News Network, December 26** Yonhap News Agency said on December 25**, a data shows that the number of South Korean students studying in China has shrunk by nearly 80% in the past six years.
According to the report on the "Current Situation of Korean Students in Foreign Higher Education Institutions" released by the Ministry of Education of South Korea on the 25th, as of April 1 this year, there were 15,857 Korean students studying undergraduate, graduate or language training in China, a decrease of 65%, up from 7, which peaked in 2017 when the number of Korean students studying in China peaked3.24 million people plummeted by 783%。
According to the report, the number of Korean students studying in China has increased year by year since the Ministry of Education of South Korea began relevant statistics in 2001, from 163.72 million in 2001 to 668.06 million in 2009, and more than 70,000 in 2017, and then has been decreasing for six consecutive years since 2018 (638.27 million).
The proportion of international students in China is also gradually decreasing. This year, 123181 13,000 Koreans are studying abroad, of which 12 are international students in China9%, down 07 percentage points. Affected by the "study in China", the proportion of Korean students studying in China rose to 30 in 20175%, with a slight decrease in 2018 and 20198%, but it has been below 20% since 2021.