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Ko, Young-Jin. “Teaching Culture in English Subject as an International Language.” Studies in English Language and Literature. 37.3 (2011): 173-94. Since a language is created in a society and the language bounds the lives of the people living in the society, the language and the culture of the society are closely related. So it is not possible to study a language departed from the culture of the people using the language to communicate perfectly with them in the language. Thus, whenever we study English, we have studied the culture of the people using English as their mother tongue. This kind of learning is the studying English as a foreign language. And the aim of the learning of a foreign language is to communicate perfectly with the people using the language as their mother tongue. However, the globalization of the world increases rapidly the number of the people and the country using and teaching English, and that changes the role of English from a foreign language to an international language using all together to communicate with the people having different languages and cultures. So the learning and teaching method of English, especially in teaching culture, has to be changed with the step. The aim of this study is to suggest the teaching method to have, the foreign cultures to teach and the principles to be considered to select the foreign cultures in English education as an international language. And the study suggests ‘learners’ culture centered foreign cultures teaching and the principles considering the multi-cultural situation of the learners of English to select foreign cultures to teach. (Daejin University)