This study gives prospects and tasks for the development of Korean herb industries and suggests as follows; There are some preconditions to be considered for the applications of functional traits of herbs and the effect of the profits when herb garden are promoted in Korea later. To activate Korean herb industries, the development of Korean unique herbs and aromatherapies should be settled down with training of specialists to reconcile the health, the beauty and interiors using herbs with human everyday life in Korea and the effects of economic benefits should be reconsidered with the activation of processing industries by developing the competitive goods from natural plants outside. To continue the development of Korean herb industries, some businesses should be executed step by step like the expansion of recognition for herbs, the promotion of the bases for the herb industry development and the increase of earnings with using herbs while the industrial-educational cooperation system are built and the settlement of the herb industries should be promoted with systematic devices for those systems preceded.

• Tae-Dong Jo(Dept. of Environmental Landscape Architecture, Kangnung National Univ.) Corresponding Author
• Jeong-Seob Jeong(Dept. of Environmental Landscape Architecture, Kangnung National Univ.)
• Young-Rok Hong(Dept. of Environmental Landscape Architecture, Graduate School, Chongju Univ.)