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  "id": 6502783,
  "title": "International students in Korea top 500,000 for 1st time on Korean cultural boom",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/international-students-in-korea-top-500-000-for-1st-time-on-korean",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-10T00:12:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/20260910/international-students-in-korea-top-500000-for-1st-time-on-korean-cultural-boom"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The number of foreigners coming to study in Korea surpassed 500,000 for the first time last year, a more than sixfold increase over four years, driven by the global popularity of Korean pop culture, government data showed Thursday. Some 505,410 of the 18.94 million foreign visitors to Korea last year entered for \"study or training\" purposes, accounting for 2.7 percent of all arrivals, according…",
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      {
        "outlet": "Yonhap News",
        "title": "Foreign students in S. Korea top 500,000 for 1st time on Korean cultural boom",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/foreign-students-in-s-korea-top-500-000-for-1st-time-on-korean",
        "published": "2026-09-09T23:26:58.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "International students in Korea top 500,000 for 1st time on Korean cultural boom",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/international-students-in-korea-top-500-000-for-1st-time-on-korean",
        "published": "2026-09-09T23:42:03.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}