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There are many restriction in Muslim community including dietary and clothing; drinking alcohol and eating pork is sinful in Muslim community due to Quran. However, Korea’s soju export to Islamic countries are increasing, especially Indonesia, a largest Muslim community country, increased 10.1% from 2017. While Islamic countries enforce their dietary rules, they allow alcohol imports for the non-Muslims and foreigners living in Indonesia are permitted to not follow the Islamic dietary laws.

Compared to the long history and religious practice of Muslim, the recognition of the population is unrecognized. Among Korea, Muslim is only consisting of 0.3% of the whole population. However with increasing immigration of Muslims to Korea is allowing the Muslim communities in Korea to grow and take significant roles.

Among Muslim communities, there are two groups that can be classified, traditional and immigrant. Traditional community of Muslim are usually people who are Korean changing themselves to Islam, while immigrants are people who migrated from Islamic countries to Korea for jobs, increase the awareness of the religion and to get away from challenges they have within the culture. Whether migrants are legal and illegal, regions these migrants come from are, Arab Middle East, Non-Arab Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. The immigration of non-Koreans had increased 9.2% compared to 2017, and the among the people, the highest age group that decides to migrate are between 20-29, followed up with age of 10-19. Through the research, I noticed how the informations are written in the past point of view. This means that, as the year passes, Korea had been open minded about Islam, providing more freedom for Islam community to practice in their belief. However, in this Wikipedia, while it provides historical information about how Islam first arrived in Korea, I believe this page could improve more if we write more about current situation of Islam in Korea.