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The purpose of this study is to provide expanded perspective and opportunity of self-reflection about multicultural adolescents’ lives through career development experience and meaning. Question of this study is 'how are multicultural adolescents’ career development experience?'. A total of 14 multicultural adolescents living in Seoul, Gyeonggido, Chungchungdo were selected for the in-depth interview. Data were collected from June to August, 2014. This research utilized Colaizzi's phenomenological method. Data analysis was based on the 7 steps presented by Colaizzi. The participants provided 18 themes on the essential structure of experience, 7 theme clusters and 4 categories. The final 18 themes that were are as the following: guiding lectures and practices help to career deciding, spending career camp, vague yearning, parents’ affect, right aptitude, protecting self, knowing my merit and demerit, I’m Korean, undifferentiated I, benefit of dual culture, acquisition of bilinguistic, unhelpful dual culture to career, my powerful source of family, advisors of out of family, altruism attitude, material abundance, surfing the dream, rushing the dream. And the final 7 theme clusters that were are as the following: previewing career, opening the eyes of career, my powerful supporters, meaning of career, peculiar me, dual culture’s brightness and darkness, suitable clothes to me. The 4 categories were looking the career, finding own color of career, hardening career and approaching career. Based on this result, It is suggested to acknowledge importance of positive motive pursuit for career, future career with choice and dispair, various support giving power, positive attitude of career, understanding of self, road to go for career development.