Korea has experienced a rapid warming of 1.5℃during the last 100 years and even faster rise of air temperature is being projected in the future. This experiment was done to figure out the impact of the predidted temperature rise on the growth and yield of rice. Two rice varieties, "Hwaseongbyeo" and "Dasanbyeo" were grown in 1/5000a Wagner pot under the four plastic houses that were controlled to ambient, ambient+1.5℃, ambient+3℃ and ambient+5℃ throughout the rice growing season. Heading dates in the elevated temperature treatments were three to five days earlier than in the ambient temperature treatment. Rice growth was affected by temperature treatments differentially according to the tested cultivars. Hwaseongbyeo(japonica) showed significant reduction of shoot dry weight under ambient+5.0℃ treatment compared to the other treatments, while Dasanbyeo(tongil-type) showed significant increase of shoot and root dry weight under the elevated temperature treatments. The number of panicles per pot and spikelets per panicle and per pot was not significantly different among temperature treatments in both cultivars tested, but significantly lower grain yield was observed under the treatments raising the air temperature to the level of 3.0℃ and 5.0℃ above the ambient air temperature. This lower grain yield in the elevated temperature treatment of ambient+3℃ was attributed mainly to the decrease of grain weight due to the shortening of grain filling period, while the drastic yield reduction in the treatment of ambient+5℃ was caused not only by the lower grain weight but also by the marked increase in spikelet sterility due to the high temperature at meiotic and flowering stage. In conclusion, the ongoing global warming is expected to decrease the grain yield not only by decreasing the grain filling period in the near future but also increasing the spikelet sterility under the long-term projected climate of Korea.