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The aim of this research is to clarify the diachronic language management of language repertoire of Korean immigrants in Australia. Specifically, this study investigated immigration background, acquisition of language used in the new country, and a person’s self-evaluation of current language usage. In addition, the influence that the diachronic management of immigrants had on social network participation in migrant communities, as identified in the self-evaluation, was analyzed and discussed. In particular, the analysis was conducted with a focus on the relationship between the presence or absence of immigration experience and the self-evaluation of the Korean immigrants of their English ability and development of diachronic management. A comparison between the characteristics of the self-evaluation of the Korean immigrants with the results of Muraoka’s (2017) investigation of Japanese immigrants in Australia was conducted. It has been inferred that by pursuing this further, in the future, it will be possible to propose an analysis model regarding self-evaluation and diachronic management of language usage for the whole immigrant population, including Korean immigrants.