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Beauty schools in Korea have traditionally focused on educating students to pursue careers mainly in hair designer, skincare esthetician, make-up artist. However, there is pressing need for professionals who possess knowledge and know-how in such area as herbal consulting, herbal research, herbal manufacture and herbal formulating. Here in Korea, the concept of herbalism is in the stage of introduction, compared with developed countries such as USA, Canada and Australia. Herbalist education program, which have been successfully implemented in U.S and Australia is recently drawing attention in Korea. The objective of this study is to suggest the fundamental data in order to propose the future direction of herbalist education programs in Korea. This study first examines a trend toward increasing demand in the domestic and global well-being industry. Then, several representative herbalist programs in college and university in the U.S and Australia are investigated including curriculum, application requirements and tuition fee. This study started based on the idea that under the circumstance the market for herb is on expansion, education programs for pre- herbalist and understanding of the market should be preceded. Therefore, Korea should exert itself to internationalization, encouraging participation in international herbal science activities and a lot of professional education programs suitable for Korean circumstance and characteristics should be carried out. We discuss potential possibility and a variety of issues to be considered in order to successfully implement herbalist education programs in Korea.