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The purpose of this article is to construct a reading class in Korean education as a foreign language to be in learner-centered way to draw learners' activity and improve their reading skill in Korean. Reading is an interactive process between a learner and text and a behavior to understand the meaning of the text. Learner-centered class means that the class provides what both a teacher and a learner need rather than only a learner need in order to activate interactions in classroom. Under these definitions, we suggest that learner-centered reading class construct with three factors-the learners, the text and the context. There are learners' personal factors which we should concern, such as Korean proficiency and some other factors which teachers should activate such as background information. Text can be reconstructed by learners and context factor and supplemented by extra materials. Context is the class itself which includes individual activity, small-group activity and whole-class activity with a appropriate balance. These three factors prerequisite for and are related to each other.