This project examines young Korean adults raised in Japan who chose to pursue higher education in Korea, focusing on their motivations for this cross-border educational transition, their cultural and linguistic adjustment to life in Korea, and how the experience reshapes their sense of Korean-Japanese identity. Against the backdrop of increasing global student mobility, this population remains largely overlooked in the literature — as members of a ethnic minority community in Japan, they occupy a unique position that differs from both typical international students and local Korean students, and their experiences of belonging and displacement deserve closer scholarly attention. Fourteen participants (6 female; 8 male), most of whom grew up in Tokyo and were enrolled at a Seoul university at the time of the study, completed a short demographic questionnaire covering educational background, language use, and self-rated proficiency in Korean and Japanese, before taking part in semi-structured group interviews in March 2025. Sessions were conducted face-to-face in Korean, Japanese, or a combination of both depending on participant preference, lasted between one and one-and-a-half hours, and were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Their accounts reveal layered and often contradictory experiences — navigating minority status and the pressures of ethnic identity in Japan on one hand, and encountering a different kind of displacement in Korea on the other, where Korean heritage does not automatically translate into cultural belonging. During AY2025, transcription of the full interview corpus was completed and preliminary engagement with the data has begun. Findings are being prepared for presentation at the International Conference on Migration Linguistics, with a peer-reviewed journal article submission planned within AY2026.