Share of South Koreans who feel the closest to North Korea 2007-2023
According to a survey conducted in South Korea in 2023, about seven percent of respondents stated that North Korea was the country they felt the closest to among neighboring countries. This represents a decrease from 10.6 percent in the previous year. This sentiment was highest in 2007 at 24 percent, and dropped to an all-time low in 2015, at just over eight percent.