Since Korean Culture Education in KFL began in 1988, a great quantity of research has been built up. Now we need to try reviewing the accumulated research critically from the macroscopic viewpoint. In recent years, studies on cultural education have been performed. But these studies have focused on the discussions by type(articles or dissertation), year, and topic. For considering the developmental directions of the study, we need to pay attention to ‘Research Methodology’ of the research accumulated so far. It is true that qualitative research is particularly useful for the discipline dealing with the various phenomena of the human mind, society approach that recognizes the cultural differences and diversity. Qualitative research method can be employed in the field of cultural education in KFL. This study aims to examine the outcomes of research performed and suggest future directions of the study for qualitative research methodology to be better understood as well as more usefully applied. In this study, a total of 494 papers associated with the theme of cultural education were searched. Among them, 58 employed a qualitative research method were selected and analyzed for this study. First of all, the selected articles were reviewed by Type, chronology, and a type of journal. Then analysed by ‘subject’, ‘the study of people,’ ‘approach to qualitative research’, ‘data collection method of qualitative research’. Lastly this study explore future directions from the viewpoint of developing cultural education. (Honam University)