Around 1,400 Thai Women Married South Korean Men in 2025

Around 1,400 Thai Women Married South Korean Men in 2025

BANGKOK, November 6, 2026 — Thai women ranked third among foreign nationals marrying South Korean men in 2025, accounting for 9.2% of such marriages, according to government statistics reported by South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency on November 5, 2026.

Data from South Korea’s Ministry of Data and Statistics showed that approximately 15,300 foreign women married South Korean men last year, with Thai women accounting for around 1,400 marriages.

Vietnamese Women Lead Among Foreign Brides

Vietnamese women represented the largest share of foreign wives marrying South Korean men, accounting for 25.3% of the total.

Chinese women ranked second at 15.1%, followed by Thai women at 9.2%.

The figures cover marriages between South Korean men and foreign women but do not indicate where couples met or where they live after marriage.

Multicultural Marriages Fall Slightly

South Korea recorded 21,399 multicultural marriages in 2025, including marriages between South Korean women and foreign men.

The total represented a slight decline of 0.2% compared with the previous year, according to the ministry’s data cited by Yonhap.

South Korean statistics define multicultural marriages as unions between South Korean nationals and foreign nationals, covering both foreign women marrying South Korean men and South Korean women marrying foreign men.