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This study investigates Korean language education curriculums which are offered in 17 departments of Korean language education at the undergraduate level. The goal of the study is to analyze current major Korean language education courses and to provide the basis for designing an ideal curriculum of Korean language education at the undergraduate level. The study focuses on the analysis of existing courses of Korean language education departments, which were offered after establishing the fundamental law for the Korean language. Compared the existing major courses with compulsory credits and courses required to obtaining the certification of Korean language teacher, it reveals that the courses of ‘domain 3’ are not enough for students to take because the offered courses are just compulsory ones. On the contrary, the ‘domain 4’ provides students with more courses than compulsory courses prescribed in the fundamental law for the Korean language. What this shows is the lack of teaching faculty who can be in charge of teaching Korean as a foreign language. Furthermore, since the current compulsory credit system is graduate-centered, it is unnatural that the system can be applied to undergraduate curriculum. This study is aim to consider the revision of the existing compulsory credit system in the fundamental law for the Korean language. On the basis of the result of the study, it requires that the curriculum of Korean language education at the undergraduate level be more elaborated.