The Korean Community in Canada - ARCHIVED

This report describes the basic social and economic characteristics of the Korean community in Canada. It is part of a series of profiles of the country's major ethnic communities.

Canadians of Korean origin make up one of the largest non-European ethnic groups in Canada. In fact, the Korean community is the 7th largest non-European ethnic group in the country, after the Chinese, East Indian, Filipino, Jamaican, Vietnamese, and Lebanese populations. In 2001, just over 100,000 people of Korean origin lived in Canada. That year, they made up 0.3% of the total Canadian population.