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The purpose of this study is to inquire into effective communication between parents and teachers using smartphone app. To achieve this, a survey was carried out from March 25 to March 29, 2013, on 180 parents of children, who have an experience of sharing community with teachers through smartphone or PC, in rural child care centers, N city, Chungnam. The results of this study are as follows. It showed that communication and information exchange between their parents and teachers by smartphone app were getting diversified by the pervasion and use of smartphone medium, making a considerable contribution to mutual information exchange as an useful medium beyond limited communication for contracting-out child care. Consequently, with the development of information media, the existing communication only through parents letter or visit to child care centers will have to be actively used as a very useful means in delivering characteristics of children's behavioral development and news related to their education, guiding learning materials, and delivering in-house notices with an easy mind and effectively between parents and teachers by safely exchanging and mutually sharing the concern over children's demands with contracting-out child care through communication.