Amid a rise in the number of foreign residents and international marriages in Korea, two schools in Seoul stand out with over 70 percent multicultural students, a regional education office found, Sunday.
While classrooms are shrinking in South Korea as a consequence of waning fertility rates, classrooms in Seoul have been seeing a steady rise in the number of students with multicultural backgrounds. Data released by the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education on Sunday indicates that at least 4 in 10 students at nine elementary schools in Seoul have at least one parent of non-Korean nationality or who is naturalized. .