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This paper explores the national identity and the attitudes towards immigrants among Korean and Japanese university students(below, KUS, JUS). In order to this research, we used cross-national comparable data from Korea and Japan researched at the institute for social Science Research in PNU. and analyzed by factor analysis, t-test. The results are as follows. First, the national identity was examined by national attachment, national pride, qualification of nation. In the national attachment and the national pride, JUS was generally higher than KUS. And the qualification of nation of KUS divided by two factors, that is, civic and ethnic factor, whereas that of JUS had not divide. But there seemed that KUS had strong civic identity and JUS had strong ethnic identity. Second, the attitudes towards immigrants was examined by social distance, attitudes about multicultural society, perceived threat. In the social distance, KUS were generally similar JUS, but JUS were more acceptable than KUS for international marriage. In the attitudes about multicultural society, KUS were very similar JUS, but KUS recognized positively and JUS recognized negatively. In the perceived threat, KUS concerned than JUS about taking jobs away from immigrants, damage of lineage and culture, and JUS concerned than KUS about increase of social problems related immigrants. In the attitudes of multicultural policy, KUS were more higher than JUS to support foreign school, wheres JUS were higher than KUS to qualify foreigners as voter.