摘要：Elementary education in Kora has variously changed and developed during the last thirty years. Among all the progressive changes,the improvement of teaching conditions is considered to be the most fundamental one. The number of students asigned to a class or a teacher has decreased to a considerable extent. Cyber teaching-learming has been peformed at school and home,and English education has been emerged as a significant part of the Korean public education. The research issues constantly considered essential over the past three decades starting in the 1980's are those related to curricula,teachinglearming methods,training of teachers in-service,and education for upright charaters. The practical and politial isues should be dealt with to revise the three integrated subjects and text books into a sole integrated subject and text book,to double the credential of teachers in terms of professionalism and to decrease the number of students per teacher in Korea to the OECD level.
