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The purpose of this study is to understand about their reason to choose a juvenile counselor and job motivation factors of counselor in juvenile institutions for raise performance. We conducted in-depth interviews with the nine counselors who had worked for more than three years in the juvenile institutions, which resulted in three categories and dozens of subdivision by using the data analysis method. The first category, ‘the motive for selecting counselors of the juvenile institutions’ is classified under 4 heads: ‘affection and interest about teenagers’, ‘personal experience’, ‘advisor and curriculum' and 'professional counseling & infrastructure counseling'. The second category, ‘Factors that evokes the job motivation’ is classified under 4 heads: 'praise as a counselor', 'people's recognition of compliment', 'responsibility as a counselor', effort to grow for counselor, and The third category, 'Factor that evokes the job dissatisfaction' is 'difficulties in peer relationship', 'poor working environment', 'lack of cooperation with linked agency' and 'grief for national policy'. The last category is classified ‘still as a consultant’. The study results are supporting the theory of Frederick Herzberg's 2 factors in job motivation of the counselor. On the basis of these result we present basic idea about the policy implications to upgrade motivation and reduce turnover of the counselor.