Gyeonggi Province Foreign Residents Face Makeshift Housing Crisis

13% of foreign residents in Gyeonggi live in makeshift residences

Gyeonggi Province has seen its foreign resident numbers surge over 14-fold since 2000, but a recent study indicated that a substantial portion of them are living in housing not meant for permanent residence. Of the 680,000 non-citizen residents in Gyeonggi Province as of 2024, 13.3 percent were residing in greenhouses, shipping containers, and dormitories that are not legally defined as homes, according to the Gyeonggi Research Institute. The proportion of migrants living in non-permanent housin

By The Korea Herald