We study the annual variation of salinity at the sea surface and at 30m depth in the neighbouring seas of korea by the harmonic method. The analysis based on the monthly salinity data at 182 stations collected regularly by the Fisheries Research and Development Agency during 15 years (1961∼1975). The annual mean salinity in the West Sea is lower than that in the East Sea. In the amplitude of annual salinity variation decreases and the phase delays with the downstream distance of the Tsushima Current. The salinity at 30m has a higher mean, a smaller amplitude and a delayed phase than the corresponding ones at the surface. The annual variations of salinity in the South and East Seas are caused mainly by the annual variations of the local precipitation and that of the fresh water discharge from the Yangtze River.