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The transition to a multicultural society has been proceeding very fast in Korea. Especially, in the situation that female married immigrants are increasing rapidly in a rural community, a systematic Korean language education is essential for them to adapt to their community and be a parent who can educate their children properly. Yet, it is difficult for them to have the opportunities to get a proper Korean language education because of the environmental limitations such as pregnancy, childbirth, childcare, household affairs, and so on. Therefore, the project of 􀅮Traveling Korean Language Education Service􀅯(the home-visit Korean language education for female married immigrants) started and it has been proceeding with more than 100􀅮 Multicultural Household Support Centers􀅯. However, the project of 􀅮Traveling Korean Language Education Service􀅯has some problems. Although the teachers who are taking in charge of the homevisit education are non-professional, there are not any systematic curriculums or continuing teacher education programs. Also, there is a lack of systematic study on teaching methods in accordance with the characteristics of the personal instructions conducted in the households. Accordingly, this study was focused both on the efficient operating methods of the home-visit Korean language education for female married immigrants and on the practical education programs for home-visit education teachers. In the first chapter, after the social and linguistic characteristics of female married immigrants were examined, supporting policies prepared for female married immigrants were surveyed, especially centering around the policies supporting Korean language education. In the second chapter, the situations of the Korean language education and the home-visit Korean language education in rural small and medium-sized cities were analyzed centering around the cases in Gongju, Chungnam. In addition, the requirements of the female married immigrants and the home-visit Korean language education teachers were analyzed. The purpose of the requirement analysis was to devise both the efficient education program for the home-visit education teachers and the efficient education methods appropriate for the characteristics of home-visit education. Through requirement analysis, the opinions were collected about the primary factors which affect the home-visit education, the qualifications of the home-visit education teachers, and the effective educational methods for the home-visit education teachers. On the basis of these, in the third chapter, the suggestions were presented for the effective operating methods of the home-visit Korean language education. Especially, enhancing teachers􀅯qualifications and professionalism was the focus of the study because the teachers􀅯competence is the primary factor to decide the qualities of the education due to the properties of the home-visit education which is usually conducted as personal instructions. Lastly, in the forth chapter, suggestions were made for the following studies by making a summary and clarifying the significance and limitations of this study.