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Spanish has been introduced and taught in Korean middle schools since 2001, based on the 7th National Curriculum, The purpose of this study is to present some basic directions of teaching Spanish culture in Korean middle schools by using statistic analysis about students’ perception on Spanish culture. The first chapter describes the current trends of teaching culture in the foreign language classroom, the previous studies on Spanish culture, and purpose of this study. Statistic research method and data collection information are mentioned in the second chapter. In the third chapter, statistically meaningful results are described with SPSS cross tab tables, focusing on school, grade and gender. As a conclusion, the fourth chapter summarizes this study and shows that Korean middle school students’ perception on the importance of Spanish culture and Spanish culture teaching is positively related to Spanish learning interest and elective courses should be chosen by students, not by schools.