Koreans in Sri Lanka

There are roughly 948 Koreans in Sri Lanka, according to the 2013 statistics of South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade).

[1][2][3] Among them were 268 international students studying at Sri Lankan universities, and 514 with other types of visas.

[2] South Korean Christian missionaries are active in Sri Lanka.

They have conducted charitable activities, such as constructing disaster assistance centres.

[4] However, their activities to promote religious conversion have also caused conflict with the predominantly Buddhist and Hindu local people.