This research project has focused on young Korean newcomers who grew up in Japan and chose to move to Korea for their university education. The aim of this project was to investigate the motivation and realization of their student life in Korea and how their Korean-Japanese identity back in life in Japan has been changed or improved since they moved (back) to Korea for their tertiary education. With the research funds given in AY2024, 14 (6 female; 8 male) Korean newcomers participated in this project through responding to a questionnaire and a group interview in March 2025. Most of them were born and raised in Tokyo (except four who also moved to Japan soon after their birth before they turned one) and were current university students in a university in Seoul at the time of participation. Prior to the group interview, all participants were asked to respond to a brief questionnaire about their profile including their education, language use, self-assessed proficiency of Korean and Japanese, and motivation to go to a Korean university. The group interview was conducted all face-to-face and took between 1 and 1.5 hour. Both Korean and Japanese were used (or mixed) depending on the preference of the interviewees. All interviews were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. This interview aimed to explore their life before and after moving to Korea. Some questions about their family, language use, culture and identity were asked to analyze their experience in both countries. The participants have shared numerous thoughts and rich episodes related to their life as a Korean in Japan as well as their life as a Korean-but-not-so-Korean in Korea. The interviews are now being analyzed for the next phase. The remaining tasks of the current project in the upcoming fiscal year would be to analyze the interview data and present at an international conference and be ready to publish this project as an article.