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The purpose of this paper is to present several methods of standardizing of the education of the Korean Alphabet and its pronunciation. I have researched the teaching methods used by several Korean textbooks for foreigners, and found many differences on the order of presenting the Korean Alphabet, on the classification of the Korean Alphabet, on the ways of presenting Korean pronunciation, etc. I proposed some suggestions on the standardization of teaching the Korean Alphabet and its pronunciation. First of all, educators should introduce 40 Korean Alphabets according to the phonetic features and the shape of the characters. They should teach the vowels before the consonants because Korean consonants are not syllabic. Also when teaching the vowels it is not necessary to devide the vowels into basic vowels and complex vowels using the invention principal of Hunminjeongeum because it is more efficient to teach Korean Alphabet according to the phonetic classification, single vowels and diphthong vowels. As ‘ㅚ, ㅟ’ vowels usually pronounce as diphthong, instructors should teach ‘ㅚ, ㅟ’ vowels as diphthong. Secondly, Educators should teach the name of the Korean Alphabet. Thirdly, they should teach the Korean Alphabet and its pronunciation together and represent pronunciation according to IPA.