The purpose in this study is to identify beliefs about orientation of Korean secondary school home economics teachers for the development of home economics curriculum and the change of their curriculum orientation. The curriculum orientations explored were academic rationalism technical cognitive process, personal relevence, and social reconstruction. A mail questionnaire, Individual Curriculum Orientation Profile(ICOP) was used to survey randomly selected 525 home economics teachers. Home economics teachers agreed with the cognitive process as their predominant curriculum orientation. The second predominant type with which home economics teachers agreed most was personal relevance orientation. Home economics teachers age, major, college type, and teaching years were significantly related to their curriculum orientation. Age and number of teaching years were significantly related to the academic rationalism curriculum orientation, and the college type for bachelor s degree was significantly related to the technical curriculum orientation. Age and major in master s degree was significantly related to the social reconstruction curriculum orientation.