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This research is to analyze and investigate results on the motivation for studying Japanese of the Korean college students and its related factors. Also, it has searched Korean college students, recognition on Japan and the Japanese and its influential elements. The results of this research are as follows; Korean college students take Japanese classes in order to interchange with Japanese and deeply understand Japanese popular culture, to prepare various tests and future jobs. And Korean college students choose ‘Conversation’ as one of the most interesting areas and one of the most important courses. From this study, we found that 60% or more repliers of Korean college students have good recognition on Japan and 42% repliers have on major factors consisting of this recognition are Japanese movie and drama and Japanese cartoon and animation. Also, 79% of Korean college students replied their recognition on Japan has changed and 70% replied their recognition Japanese has changed, after studying Japanese.