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The purpose of this paper is to consider the possibility to reestablish the Korean identities appropriate to the era of multicultural societies. In order to reach this aim, we will try to analyse epistemologically the definition and the concept of national identity and compare it with those of national character. We will also try to understand how the national identity can be formed in the relation with traditional public cultures. Secondly, we will unscramble characteristics and types of South Koreans’ perceptions of national identity, measuring acceptance of foreign immigrants in Korea. Thus we will be able to recognize the tendency of South Koreans’ perceptions of national identity, which seems very antinomic. We will try to find out the main reason. And with the result of our analysis, we will propose how to reestablish our new national identity which shall be fit enough to corroborate the nationhood to the Koreans, without having racial conflicts, neither rejecting the psychodynamic identity based on the traditional culture of Korea. As the case stands, this study is expected to provide useful implications for enhancing capacity of social intergration and renew the concept of Koreanness.