The purpose of this study is to analyze the research trends of Korean language educational research papers for academic purposes and to suggest the direction of Korean language education research for academic purposes based on the results. This study analyzed 800 articles related to 'Korean for Academic Purposes' that can be searched by Riss and KCI using topic modelling and language network analysis method. In this paper, we review the detailed topics, main word pairs, linguistic knowledge structure, and language network in Korean language for academic purpose and analyze the characteristics of the study trends. As a whole, studies on 'Writing‘,’Speaking’ and ‘Evaluation' were most studied in the education of Korean language for academic purpose. (Inha University)