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The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of Daegu and Kyungbook area university students’ stress from academic and job-seeking task on their acceptability of people with multicultural background and further, to investigate the differences based on their characteristics and personal experiences. From three universities in Daegu and Kyungbook, 414 university students responded to a survey which evaluated their level of stress from academic and job-seeking work and that of acceptability of migrant workers, marriage migrant women, and children with multicultural family. The collected data were analyzed by using single regression analysis, two way ANOVA, and graph analysis. The main results were as follows. First, the Daegu and Kyungbook area university students‘ stress from academic and job-seeking task negatively influenced on their acceptability of migrant workers and marriage migrant women. Second, the female university students were influenced by their stress from academic and job-seeking work in accepting the people with multicultural background more than the male university students were. Third, their experience on living abroad and having a migrant friends weakened the influence of the stress on accepting migrant workers and marriage migrant women. This study indicates that in order for university students to increase acceptability of people with multicultural background, continuous and reflective multicultural education programs should be provided rather than one-time program. Also, emotional issues such as stress from academic and job-seeking work should be considered when developing those multicultrual education programs.