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The students of Korean Universities and colleges are now struggle for their foreign language ability.They need to accomplish their credits in school. In other hands, they are forced to reach a certain standard to make a good command of foreign language. Since Korean and Japanese government have agreed to open each other's culture officially and to exchange, it shows a common phenomena that students are eager to experience study abroad during they are in schooling years.In this paper I have made a general review on the exchange program between Korean& Japanese universities. For the review, I have made a survey on some ongoing programs of 25 Universities.There are several types of going to foreign country for study. Some short period of program intensive language school, long period of private language school, and officially sent exchange students.The exchange program is now increasing gradually between Korean and Japanese universities and as well as high schools. The students who participate to this program, are well aware that they may expect to reach to higher ability of language. However, unless they are prepared to understand foreign culture and foreign society, their study and their living abroad may not be successful. We may emphasize that in language education, it is very important to try to understand different culture. It has been 45years already since Japanese Language has been taught in Korean high school and universities as a second foreign language officially. We realize that Korean teachers of Japanese, were focused of our effort to teach our students language system itself. However It is necessary to turn our interest gradually to understand different culture as well. Since the contemporary language aquisition theories emphasize the importance of learner's understanding of the target language.