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This study is about a cultural centre class for adaptation of foreign learners to Korean culture. This study aims to suggest step-by-step culture teaching methods for ‘cultural adaptation’ of foreign learners. Step-by-step learning is divided into three steps; classroom learning → indirect experience through media → cultural experience activity and each step is subdivided into the beginning step, the intermediate step and the last step. Here, ‘cultural centre’ means to integrate other instructions of language functions focusing on culture, like existing content-based teaching, task-based and theme-based teaching methods, which integrate language functions for language teaching. The step-by-step culture education plan suggested in this study doesn’t take new data construction of Korean language teachers or organization of class hours into account. The ultimate purpose is to help teachers obtain educational effects only by reorganizing present cultural experience or teaching material-based cultural knowledge classes depending on the steps. If teachers, who are worried about what to teach and show, prepare contents with the same theme for cultural experience, it would be helpful in providing a systematic class and positively influence learners to internalize cultural knowledge that they learn and adapt to Korean culture.