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The aim of this study was to look at the trends and features of the ‘speaking’ studies over the decades in Korea. For this purpose, we analysed the 383 speaking-related papers published in academic journals of 147 species focusing on the related topics such as speaking, presentation, addressing speech, and speech etc. We first analyzed how the speaking researches have been done and how the trends and characteristic of the speaking papers were appeared. The results were summarized as follow. First, the speaking research was one of the high- frequent research topics in various academic fields. Second, the speaking researches were conducted most actively in the Korean Language and Literature field. Then the researches of Pedagogy and Humanities were followed. Third, the most common topic the authors preferred to study was the certain type of speaking like speech or address performed in public, and it was most commonly content analyzed. The reason of this tendency was the usefulness of analysis using the texts without considering the complexity of communication contexts. Fourth, it was noticed that many studies were conducted in the school-based context. Schools are the places to easily collect the data and students are the useful sources to approach. It can be acceptable, but it could have the limit of generalization due to the specific context of school. Future studies need to be carried out considering the changing communication contexts such as audiences’ situation, time and space related discourses, and uniqueness of medium including SNS, online etc.