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The purpose of this study was to propose the development directions of mobile applications for the adolescents career education through the program analysis. The target application programs were totally 53 which were analysed according to the target ages, educational goals, program types and qualities. As the results of analysis, 63% of applications were for adults by ages, 49.1% of applications were to support career explorations by educational goals, and 37.7% of applications were to utilize the career informations by program types. Only 8 of the applications were to encourage the learner's self-directed creativity in the program qualities. There are only a few qualified applications in terms of technical aspects, interactions, and user-customized functions. Those results implies the need for career education applications tailored for youth. Development of effective applications for the youth connected with the local communities might be an appropriate alternatives for the career education practices such as loose semester for career exploration.