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The purpose of this study was to investigate elementary school teachers ‘perceptions on the Koreanscientific cultural properties, i.e., Chomseongdae and Chukugi. Participants were 39 teachers who werein the in-service program of elementary school science in 1998 and additional 31 teachers in the train-ing workshop of elementary gifted science education in 2007. The survey examined participants’ per-ceptions on the following three domains: knowledge, evaluation and teaching experience aboutChomseongdae and Chukugi. In addition, 8 teachers were randomly selected and interviewed by e-mailregrading their ideas about how to utilize the two items of scientific cultural assets in educational settings.The results of the study revealed three major findings: First, the majority of the participating teachershad a low score on the value of the scientific cultural properties. Second, the participating teachers hadlittle experience of teaching about Chomseongdae and Chukugi. The study showed that the teacherseven had little been asked by their students about the cultural relics in class. Third, most of the ele-mentary teachers had a desire to teach about the cultural properties. However, they knew little abouthow to utilize them for elementary science because of their little teaching experience and little knowl-edge about Chomseongdae and Chukugi.