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The purpose of this paper is to establish the proper relationship between Korean language education and Korean culture education. Korean culture education has been thought as one of tools for raising communication skills, occupying subordinate position in the field of Korean language education. This paper, however, will consider these two types of education as the original one standing in the equal position since they have different goals and contents. The reason why the efforts to unify Korean cultaure with Korean language education could not result in satisfying outcome is that the relationship of these two areas has not been clearly fixed. By looking straight at the present situation, this paper sets up the relationship between these two as follows: Korean culture contributes to achieve the goals of Korean language education by standing as the elementary background on Korean language education, also Korean language serves to instruct Korean culture systematically by becoming the teaching tools for Korean culture education. As taking this point of view, we are able to divide central points of Korean studies into two parts: Korean language education and Korean culture education. That is to say, the former lightens its functional responsibility and the latter retrieves its essential role and value. (Chonnam National University)