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This paper presents a study on the test of cultural competence in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language(TKFL) focusing on speech test. The purpose of this study is to develop and suggest a sample of useful test tool sets for evaluating the cultural competence of Korean learners. The research is composed of 4 chapters. The first chapter presents the purpose and the theoretical background of this study. The second chapter focuses on the definition and the range of cultural education and cultural competence in relation with TKFL. The third chapter is composed of three sub-chapters which show, 1) the sub-categories composing the constructs of the cultural competence test tool: politeness, formality, register, kinesics, cultural background knowledge, cultural expressions, and task function accomplish- ment competence, 2) the contents of the test tool in detail, and 3) samples of the cultural competence test tool sets according to the levels of proficiency focusing on Korean speech test. In the last chapter a brief summarization of this study is made and some suggestions are offered to complete the study.