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This is a report about university students' communication behavior mediated through cellular phones. Sometime ago, I published a paper on university student's communication behavior, and from the study I found out that cell phone SMS (short message service) is the media for communication supported most by students. This time, I have done a survey about how to use the cell phone SMS, and examined students' communication behavior. I can point out as follows from the analysis of this survey. Students tend to use their voice call and SMS appropriately by a degree of intimacy relation with their counter part. For example, voice calls tend to be chosen when their partners are close ones; on the other hand, they prefer SMS for partners who are not familiar. And I also analyzed contents of their SMS for the purpose of understanding students’ politeness strategy. When students send SMS of refusal against partner's request, they express apology first. This means that Korean students tend to have a strategy of negative politeness to preserve their partner's negative face. In general, it is said that emoticons are widely used when SMSing between university students. Concerning on the usage of emoticons, I would say that appropriate use of emoticons is occurred according to the social or psychological distance with their partners, and it should be counted as a strategy in refusal behavior.