The proportion of births from multicultural families, among the total number of births in South Korea, reached a record-high for the first time last year.
According to Statistics Korea on Wednesday, while the number of children born in multicultural families decreased two percent in 2018 compared to a year earlier, its proportion in the country's overall births hit a record high of 5-point-5 percent.
Vietnamese mothers comprised more than one-third of births in multicultural families, while one-fifth were Chinese. Around 7 percent of births were from Philippine mothers.
The number of international marriages between a South Korean national and a foreigner last year also reached a record high in four years.