7.3million overseas Koreans are motivating the world
7.3million overseas Koreans are motivating the world,
Growing into mature global citizens, overseas Koreans are making a new history the global landscape
Introduction of Overseas Koreans Foundation (OKF)
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Purpose
To help and support overseas
Koreans to maintain
national ties while safety
setting into the countries of
residence as exemplary
members of such societies*Overseas KoreansFoundation Act Article 1 -
Definitions
Persons who are a national of
the Republic of Korea,
and stay in a foreign country
for a long time, or obtain
permanent residency in
a foreign country; persons of
Korean extraction regardless of
their nationality, who reside
and live in a foreign country*Overseas KoreansFoundation Act Article 2 -
Mission
To support overseas Koreans
to help them maintain the
ethnic ties and become
exemplary members of their
residing countries -
Vision
The global platform
organization that will
accomplish a Korean
community together with
Koreans
-
Cultivation of
identity as Korea -
Improvement of
capabilities -
Mutual development
-
Social value
achievement
0.23 M
Canada
2.63 M
USA
0.09 M
Central and
South
America
0.67 M
Europe Russia
& CIS
18,379
The Middle
East
9,471
Africa
2.35 M
China
0.81 M
Japan
0.48 M
South Asia
and Pacific
Regional distribution of overseas Korean
7,325,143 overseas Koreans in 180 countries
(Source : Status of overseas Koreans from MOFA in 2021)
