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Leisure activities play an important role in understanding and learning new cultures. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between seriousness in leisure, identity, and acculturation for immigrant women of multicultural families in South Korea. Participants in this study were one hundred twenty immigrant women of multicultural families from Daegu and Gyeongbuk regions. The results showed that seriousness in leisure had a significant relationship with identity and acculturation for immigrant women of multicultural families. Results of this study also found that there was a positive relationship between identity and acculturation for immigrant women of multicultural families. Additionally, there was also a significant and indirect relationship between seriousness in leisure and acculturation for immigrant women of multicultural families. The findings from this study utilized the basic data of leisure-culture policies for immigrant women of multicultural families in South Korea. Additionally, it may need to develop the leisure-related facilities and programs in order to improve the level of acculturation for immigrant women of multicultural families. Future research may need to explore the determinants of acculturation for immigrant women of multicultural families in different settings using longitudinal approaches.