한국어교육 환경의 변화와 발전을 위한 과제

Changes of the Korean Language Education Environment and the Tasks for Development

Nowadays, There are rapid changes on Korean language education inside and outside of Korea. Korean language education, having 100 years of history outside Korea and 50 years of history in Korea, had shown a big leap in 1980’s. Korea language education is showing another big development again lately, it can as well be seen that the scale of development is bigger than the one in 1980s. Although various factors are present for this development, here, I presented 7 of them; such as Chinese economic growth and studying abroad rage, development of multi-cultural society in Korea, etc. As characteristics of the development process, such as expansion of Korean language education as social education, increasing Korean language education for specific purposes, etc, can be presented. But for better development of the Korean language education, basic infrastructure for Korean language education must be improved. Also the wide and various cooperation among all the actors in Korean language education are needed.