The most cited South Korean source reports about 82,000 personnel were missing or held as POWs at the armistice, of whom only 8,343 were repatriated. A simple subtraction yields over 74,000, but this is a raw figure before adjustments for KIA reclassification and duplicate counts. The working estimate of roughly 50,000–60,000, or about 60,000, is the figure we use here.