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Today the liberal arts education in Korean universities confronts with great crisis. Main reason for it is the cultural poverty of the principal paradigm of the high education in Korea. This is, in my view, related with cultural characteristics of Korean modernity which is what I have determined as a ‘confucian modernity’. But that is also the very reason why we must not give up the liberal arts education in the high education. There are many good reasons why this is the core of the university education even in today's situation. The liberal arts education endeavors to grow up ‘the man of liberty’, that is, citizens who are liberated from the tradition and convention, and who can think, judge, criticise and act ‘free’. Nevertheless, this liberal arts education cannot be performed sufficiently in the present university's institutional frame of Korea. Therefore, we need to search a new road for it. I think, the PPE-program which has been successfully developed and established in the Oxford university in U.K. can offer a good model for Korean universities