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This research observes the re-socialization process of immigrant youths applying the phenomenology, the qualitative research method. The study analyzes the re-socialization process with the course of time in four stages: the interaction before immigration to Korea, the interaction with the new culture after immigration, conflict stage and crisis stage. The first stage could be interpreted as the ‘window for the conflict solving,’ ‘facilitator,’ etc. Second, they felt ‘anxious and isolated’ as the first stage of conflict in the socialization process. In this stage they found themselves as ‘alien’ and ‘separate.’ They also experienced the ‘structural discrimination.’In addition to this, with the ‘structural discrimination,’ they also experienced the ‘social discrimination and apathy’ in the second stage of socialization. In the final stage of socialization, the crisis stage, as the crisis and confusion, they experienced ‘alienation and loneliness,’ ‘identity confusion,’ ‘marginalization’ etc. It is also found that they experienced the ‘only one mean for enjoyment’ and ‘escaping’ in the second stage of socialization. Though the socialization process of immigrant youths was sequential, it changed in every stage. As time passed, little variance among youths in socialization process was observed as the personal characteristics of the immigrant youths, his background or support.