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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the present state of education on the traditions and characteristics of Korean literature and to present the problems and solutions. The main research contents are raising questions linked to the current status of traditional education in Korean literature and finding academic tasks for the application of literary education. The <Literature> curriculum 2015 and 10 authorized textbooks were analyzed. This paper examined the composition of traditional education methods, learning elements, developmental method of learning activities and the problems of selection on literary materials. Also, it presented the selection of learning elements and literary materials. Ten textbooks were analyzed, and in nine textbooks, the traditions and characteristics of Korean literature education offered various approaches to learning activities. The explanatory approach and the development of learning activities are more effective when constructing an exploratory learning model that utilizes comparison, reasoning, and textual interplay. If the traditional explanations are presented in a deductive way, and the study activities are organized linearly as a way of responding to literary theme, tradition or characteristic, it could end up with cramming of literary knowledge. The selection of learning elements on tradition needs to be made to find the educational elements of tradition rather than focus on transferring literary knowledge accumulated in academic discourse. Some specific examples include paying attention to the characteristics of ideological aspects, emphasizing traditional rule through Sijo poem or folk music education in the character education of lyric genre, and educational activities that are focusing on oral culture. For the selection of educational product, academia should present both the necessary theme and the optional theme of educational canon on tradition and characteristic education. Moreover, in order to emphasize the spiritual and historical trends, people should also pay attention to those alienated Korean literature genre such as the explanation, the argument, the description and the motto prose. Furthermore, they should focus on the choice of literary products considering the linkages of traditional culture. In other words, it is necessary to presuppose the linkage of music, art, crafts and daily culture, and find products that take into account the developmental aspects of national cultures.

traditions and characteristics of Korean literature, traditional education methods, literary materials, educational canon