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The purpose of this research is to identify the degree of adolescent’s national identity and multicultural acceptability and to check the impact of adolescent’s national identity on multicultural acceptability. First of all, the studies on multicultural acceptability and national identity are reviewed. Based on the reviews, the concept of national identity is divided into ethnic factor and civil factor. Korean Multiculturalism Inventory for Adolescent(KMCI-A) developed by Ministry of Gender Equality & Family Republic of Korea is used for the concept of multicultural acceptability as the dependent variable. The research subject boy’s and girl’s high school is selected by random method in Incheon area and 620 students answered the questionnaires. The survey period is from Mar. 11, 2014 to Mar. 21, 2014. Only 571 ones are analysed because of unanswered or unreliable response. The result of analysis shows that only ethnic identity negatively impacts on all 5 multicultural acceptability factors(stereotypes and discrimination, intention of mutual exchange, global civil action, cultural openness and sentiment of rejection and avoidance) and the degree of impact is relatively strong. However, civil identity positively impacts on only cultural openness and global civil action.