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BACKGROUNDS Despite the introduction of Social Pharmacy in South Korea since the 1990s, there have been no studies on the status of social pharmacy education and research so far. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to investigate current status of social pharmacy education and research in South Korea. METHODS A questionnaire was mailed to 35 deans (or professors of Social Pharmacy) at colleges of pharmacy in South Korea. All respondents were asked to provide information regarding the status of their faculties, curriculum and graduate school. To present the result of the questionnaire, the frequencies or percentages of all the questions were calculated as all variable were categorical. RESULTS Over two months, a total of 34 professors participated in the study (97% response rate). Among them, 24 colleges answered that they has full-time faculty members in social pharmacy (71%), and 10 colleges answered that they don’t have full-time professors (29%). The 15 respondents reported that their colleges had graduate school of social pharmacy (44%) CONCLUSION The significant difference among the colleges of pharmacy was shown in the status of social pharmacy faculties, mandatory clerkship, and graduate school. To reduce the gap among the colleges of pharmacy, it is necessary to expand the social pharmacy faculty and develop the infrastructure in the field of social pharmacy.