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This study aims at establishing the criteria for analyzing level 4 KFL reading textbooks. To this end, the study examines the objectives of the current curricula of the college-affiliated Korean language programs and the requisites to pass level 4 of the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK). The study also scrutinizes the necessary conditions for level 4 KFL reading textbooks through a review of the various literatures, and, based on this literature review, it develops a model for analyzing level 4 KFL reading textbooks. The constituents that should be considered for level 4 KFL reading books are as follows: first, in terms of the text, the text content (theme), the type of the text (genre), readability, the degree of authenticity, and the presentation style are selected as elements for analysis. Second, in terms of the reading activities and strategies, the activities that are performed in the pre-reading stage, the in-reading stage, and the after-reading stage, as well as the strategies that can be acquired through the activities in all these stages are proposed.