Arrivals from South Korea, year to date
Provisional769,930
arrivals
Change not shown: June 2026 does not cover the whole month.
- Period
- Jan–Aug 2026
- Source
- Source: Ministry of Tourism and Sports
Tourism statistics · by nationality
Tourists from South Korea to Thailand
Thailand recorded 1,555,227 international tourist arrivals of South Korea nationality in 2025 and 769,930 in Jan–Aug 2026, according to the Ministry of Tourism and Sports. South Korea was the 5th largest source market in 2025, with 4.7% of all international arrivals. All figures are preliminary.
- Data through
- August 2026
- Updated
- Source retrieved
Full year 2025
Provisional1.6million
arrivals
−16.8% vs 2024 (1,868,945)
- Period
- 2025
- Source
- Source: Ministry of Tourism and Sports
Rank among markets
Provisional5th
4.7% of all arrivals
- Period
- 2025
- Source
- Source: Ministry of Tourism and Sports
Latest month
Provisional95,066
arrivals
−29.1% vs August 2025 (133,995)
- Period
- August 2026
- Source
- Source: Ministry of Tourism and Sports
Monthly arrivals
Includes provisional or estimated values; the table shows each value’s status. Source: Ministry of Tourism and Sports, International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand (by nationality).
What the figures show
Between 2020 and 2025, the highest annual total for South Korea was 1,868,945 in 2024. Arrivals in 2025 were −16.8% compared with 2024. In 2025, the busiest month was January (209,065) and the quietest was April (84,455).
The Ministry of Tourism and Sports classifies arrivals by nationality, so these figures count visitors holding South Korea nationality wherever they travelled from. The ministry does not state whether someone who enters Thailand more than once is counted more than once. The ministry flags June 2026 as not fully recorded, so changes involving that month are not shown.
2026 compared with 2025
| Month | 2026 | 2025 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 168,222 | 209,065 | −19.5% |
| February | 144,467 | 168,090 | −14.1% |
| March | 99,462 | 120,775 | −17.6% |
| April | 63,771 | 84,455 | −24.5% |
| May | 63,926 | 91,178 | −29.9% |
| JuneIncomplete month | 47,169 | 98,544 | — |
| July | 87,847 | 130,259 | −32.6% |
| August | 95,066 | 133,995 | −29.1% |
| September | — | 101,672 | — |
| October | — | 136,382 | — |
| November | — | 130,251 | — |
| December | — | 150,561 | — |
Source: Ministry of Tourism and Sports, International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand (by nationality).
By year
| Year | Arrivals | Rank | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,555,227 | 5th | 4.7% |
| 2024 | 1,868,945 | 4th | 5.3% |
| 2023 | 1,660,042 | 3rd | 5.9% |
| 2022 | 531,685 | 4th | 4.8% |
| 2021 | 12,077 | 9th | 2.8% |
| 2020 | 260,228 | 7th | 3.9% |
Source: Ministry of Tourism and Sports, International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand (by nationality).
Methodology
Rows of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports "International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand" releases for individual countries, as labelled by the publisher (nationality). Publisher labels are mapped to ISO 3166-1 codes; regional subtotals and "Other in …" residual rows are not included as countries. Values marked P are preliminary.
The publisher classifies visitors by nationality. A country's figure counts arrivals of that nationality, wherever they travel from.
Countries plus residual rows sum to the publisher's Grand Total; the residual rows are not shown as countries.
The 2020 and 2021 releases label South Korea as "Korea" and have no separate North Korea row.
Licence: the publisher does not state reuse terms (unconfirmed). Figures are republished as attributed statistical facts.
June 2026 excludes 22–25 June (publisher's recording system outage); comparisons involving it are not like-for-like.
Sources
International tourist arrivals to Thailand by nationality, monthly
- Source
- MOTS International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand
- Dataset
- International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand: arrivals by nationality, monthly
- Last updated by publisher
- 1 September 2026
- Retrieved
- 23 September 2026
- Original dataset
- View original(opens in a new tab)
- Licence
- Not stated by the publisher (unconfirmed)
- ThailandStats dataset
- International tourist arrivals to Thailand by nationality, monthly
Source releases used (5)
- สถิตินักท่องเที่ยวชาวต่างชาติที่เดินทางเข้าประเทศไทย ปี 2563 (จำนวนยอดสะสมเบื้องต้น) (International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand 2020) (Jan - Dec)(opens in a new tab)Release as at 25 January 2021 · retrieved 23 September 2026 · SHA-256 f3adbfed95c3…
- สถิตินักท่องเที่ยวชาวต่างชาติที่เดินทางเข้าประเทศไทย ปี 2564 (จำนวนยอดสะสมเบื้องต้น) (International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand 2021) (Jan - Dec)(opens in a new tab)Release as at 24 January 2022 · retrieved 23 September 2026 · SHA-256 118556c25e82…
- สถิตินักท่องเที่ยวชาวต่างชาติที่เดินทางเข้าประเทศไทย ม.ค. - ธ.ค. ปี 2566 (เบื้องต้น) (International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand Jan - Dec 2023)(opens in a new tab)Release as at 19 January 2024 · retrieved 23 September 2026 · SHA-256 eee0c15b4644…
- สถิตินักท่องเที่ยวชาวต่างชาติที่เดินทางเข้าประเทศไทย ม.ค. - ธ.ค. ปี 2568 (เบื้องต้น) (International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand Jan - Dec 2025P)(opens in a new tab)Release as at 1 January 2026 · retrieved 23 September 2026 · SHA-256 8dfeefbc5104…
- สถิตินักท่องเที่ยวชาวต่างชาติที่เดินทางเข้าประเทศไทย ปี 2569 (เบื้องต้น) (International Tourist Arrivals to Thailand Aug 2026P)(opens in a new tab)Release as at 1 September 2026 · retrieved 23 September 2026 · SHA-256 2512bc4ce532…
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