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The purpose of this study is to discover the language attitudes of Korean language learners toward Korean pronunciation using a survey method based on the Measure of Prejudice Against Accented English (Ura et al., 2015) and a survey that is developed by Derwing(2003) to examine the perception of foreign language learners on the pronunciation. The language attitude toward pronunciation has analyzed based on their attitude toward immediate social situation; attitude toward pronunciation learning, interpersonal history, perceived cultural factors. For this research, 83 participants answered 15 questions using the six-point Likert Scale. The results show that almost half of Korean language learners' purpose on learning pronunciation is getting native like pronunciation. Also, they generally believe that learners who want to live long term in Korea are needed to achieve native like pronunciation and that this is related to the success in Korea. In addition, they generally believe that Korean native speakers have negative attitude toward foreign accented Korean pronunciation and some of them are discriminated by Korean native speakers because of their foreign accented Korean pronunciation. In addition, they generally have negative attitudes toward non-native foreign accented Korean speakers. In addition, some of the questions resulted in conflicting results based on participants job, period they've been in Korea, purpose of learning Korean language and their language level.