The recent development of information technology is transforming and redirecting our life into a new one radically different from the past, and such transition in the history of human civilization puts a new meaning on today`s mission of Chinese literacy program in Korea. Now the Chinese literacy education should set up a new set of goals and attempt to improve the methods of teaching and learning in addressing those essential problems including the restoring of the lost ethnicity, the healing of the inveterate social illnesses, and the creative development of the national spirit. Once we are in the age of simultaneous use of Chinese characters in Korea, the teachers of Chinese characters and Literature in highschool should bear in mind the following objectives: First, we should teach the students so that they may help our nation become a strong economy. Second, we should teach the students so that they may have the two Koreas reunified. Third, we should teach the students so that they may better served the tourists from abroad. Fourth, we should teach the students so that they may make our country a local center for knowledge and information. Finally, we should teach the students so that they may help make our spiritual and cultural potential better known to the world. In order to implement the goals in the specific situations, this paper made a survey on the personal opinions of both the teachers and the students and on the possible measures for improvement toward the problems of Chinese literacy education in highschool, and proposed a step-by-step method of teaching Chinese characters and literature for an effective implementation in highschool. As an introductory step dealing with the basic principles, the first step covers the teaching and learning of radicals, of penmanship, of and of reading. As a step for understanding and activating, the second step deals with resources teaching and learning, coinage teaching and learning, mind-map teaching and (earning, NIE(Newspaper in Education) teaching and learning, etc. As a unified level, the third step includes exploration teaching and learning, creative teaching and learning, cooperative teaching and learning, team-teaching methodology, and cyber teaching and learning. Thus the curriculum in highschool will be able to double its educational effect not only on the personal development of the students but also on the national benefits. In the age of simultaneous use of Chinese characters, the teaching of Chinese characters and literature in highschool should search for varied methods and approaches so that we may write a new chapter in which we are able to develop the benefits of our geographical location in the center of the Chinese-character culture zone and to contribute to the prosperity of our nation, the peaceful co-existence of the Far-eastern countries, and the enhanced level of spiritual and cultural awareness of the Globe. For this common purpose all levels of formal education from elementary school to college as well as research institutes should participate in this literacy program with a shared spirit.

• 宋永日(東大田高) | Song, Yeong-il