There is provided an intercell interference mitigation apparatus for use in a terminal having a single reception antenna in a multi-cell downlink of an OFDMA system. The apparatus includes one or more parallel interference cancellers for canceling intercell interference by respreading soft decision values of cells other than a self cell; one or more LLR creation blocks for creating channel LLRs required for the soft decision for each of subcarriers, and producing channel soft outputs; one or more soft deciders for performing a soft decision of a self user symbol of the self cell in which interferences from other users are mitigated, and producing the soft decision values; and one or more channel estimation blocks for performing iterative channel estimation by respreading symbols of the soft decision values produced from the soft deciders.