This study focuses on Korean women from former Soviet territories, who are referred to as "Goryeoin" in South Korea. Overseas Koreans` legal status has been defined by Act on the Immigration and Legal Status of Overseas Koreans (Act on the Overseas Koreans) in South Korea since 1999. At first Koreans from the former Soviet territories were excluded from the legal category of overseas Koreans. They have been accepted into the legal category by the second amendment of the Act since 2004. Specially through student migrants` experiences, this study aims to define their conflict between legal status as overseas Koreans and real life since they migrated into South Korea. To achieve this, not only the changes of language policies in the former Soviet territories but also the enactment and amendments of Act on the Overseas Koreans in South Korea are examined, and then interviews with 9 ethnic Korean women student migrants from former Soviet territories were conducted. The collected data were analyzed. The results of the study can be summarized as follows: Korean women from the former Soviet territories were included into overseas Koreans legally, but their real statuses in south Korea are different from legal one. They are discriminated on a structural level as well as a personal level. The reasons of discriminations are concerned with nationality, race and language (English). Specially Korean women from the former Soviet territories by focusing on immigration for studies are not actively assimilated or embraced during their lives in South Korea. For them, native Koreans are competitors. Therefore, they are different both from the marriage immigrants who are supported and embraced by the government as spouses of native Koreans, and from the foreign workers whose positions have been verified by raising issues of labor rights and human rights mainly through labor organizations. There are no factors externally reinforcing their rights as a group in South Korea.