This study investigated the effect of multicultural perception and empathy ability on nursing students through multicultural role-playing. It is a quasi-experimental research with a nonequivalent control group pre/post-test design. Data collection was from March to April 2022. Data analysis included frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and chi-square tests, and a paired t-test was used to confirm the effect within each group of subjects before and after the survey. The subjects were nursing students from one area who agreed to the experiment. The experimental group wrote a scenario for multicultural role play and presented it as a video. A total of 100 people, 50 each from the experimental group and the control group were measured for multicultural perceptions and empathy before and after role-play activities. Multicultural role-playing had a significant effect on the multicultural perception (p=.004) and empathy ability (p=0.000) of nursing college students. Therefore, This study suggests that multicultural role-playing can help change multicultural perceptions and empathy ability.

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