Abstract

Objectives This study aims to analyze modern poetry from a cultural perspective rather than a literary aspect in Korean language education, and to present a way to use modern poetry more effectively in Korean language edu-cation by analyzing cultural elements.
 Methods For this study, 55 modern poems, excluding overlapping psalms, were analyzed from 75 contemporary poems contained in 141 Korean textbooks at 12 universities in Seoul, which have the highest distribution of aca-demic learners. In order to analyze modern poetry contained in Korean textbooks, poetry was classified as a cul-tural element using the cultural category of the third stage of the “Standard Curriculum” prepared at the national level.
 Results Using the cultural category of the “Checking and Complementing the Use of the International Standard Korean Curriculum,” 55 modern poems were classified into cultural elements such as “Living Culture,” “Language Culture,” “History Culture,” “Art Culture,” “Traditional Culture,” “Instrumental Culture,” and “Information Culture.” The frequency of cultural items classified as cultural elements was 55 times for “language culture,” 37 times for “geographic culture,” 36 times for “spiritual culture,” 18 times for “living culture,” and 17 times for “receiving culture.”
 Conclusions As a result of analyzing 55 modern poems contained in 141 Korean textbooks as cultural elements of the “standard curriculum,” they were concentrated on “language culture,” followed by “geographical culture” and “mental culture.” Psalms that can be classified into various cultural elements including low frequency ‘institutional culture’, ‘traditional culture’, ‘historical culture’, and ‘art culture’ should be added.

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