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The purpose of this paper is to design a Korean language and culture textbook for multicultural children. As statistics show the rapid increase of multicultural population in Korea, special attention has been demanded for multicultural children education. Although they are born as Korean, they seem to pass through hard time to live as ordinary Korean children due to lack of appropriate educational stimulus. Since their mothers(or fathers) are not native Koreans, they have not had language and cultural awareness enough to grow up as ordinary Korean children. This, in turn, leads them to unsuccessful school life and insufficient study achievement. The study aims at providing materials to develop their awareness and knowledge of Korean language and culture in order to help them succeed in school life. This study selected 40 cultural items by analyzing elementary textbooks and textbooks of Korean as foreign language, which elementary school children should know. They consist of everyday language-based culture, information-based culture, and value-based culture.