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The purpose of this study is to examine what kinds of comments Korean language arts teachers make about the students' persuasive essay writings[Nonsul] and to analyze how the teachers perceive their own comments. The data were obtained from 100 essay writings that 50 middle school teachers of Korean language arts read and commented through a government-funded learning support website. Surveys were also conducted to identify the teachers' perceptions about the comments they offered to students. Standards for data analysis were adapted from Peterson & Kennndy(2006) and reformed for this study. This study found out that the Korean language arts teachers perceived that they made comments on students' writings mainly focusing on the meaning and the structure of the essay, students' thought, and their background knowledge. However, the teachers' actual comments were overwhelmingly related to students' spelling mistakes, the word spacing, and orthography. The results show there are differences and gaps between teachers' perceptions about their comments on students' writings and their actual contents of the comments.