In this study, an improvement plan was derived by statistically analyzing the system and current status of tests in Korea and survey of seafarers perception in order to improve the expertise of the Korean fishing vessel officer examination. Recently, about 70% of marine accident occurs from fishing vessels. Therefore, it's necessary to improve the examination to reduce marine accidents. As a result, it was identified that an average of 29,265 applicants have applied over the past four years, and among them, 1,833 people have applied for fishing vessel licenses, accounting for 6.3% of the total. According to the result of explanation and response of 115 people, they responded that practical utilization was low, each operation waters has different requirements and it’s necessary to improve the contents of the questions for the specialty subject. In addition, inappropriate questions were found in previous exams. To reduce marine accidents caused by human error and to improve the professionalism of fishing vessel officers, it is necessary to adjust the test criteria and ratio with characteristics of fishing vessels and in the long run, institutional improvements such as the distinction between test subjects and licenses are needed.

서 론
재료 및 방법
결과 및 고찰
    최근 4년간 어선항해사 면허시험 현황
    설문조사 결과 및 해석
    시험의 출제 기준
    어선 전문과목 기출문제 검토
    어선항해사 시험 개선 방안
결 론
References

• 류경진(부경대학교 실습선) | Kyung-Jin RYU (Training Ship, Pukyong National University)
• 박태건(한국해양수산연수원 오션폴리텍팀) | Tae-Geun PARK (Oceanpolytech Team, Korea Institute of Maritime and Fisheries Technology)
• 유광민(한국해양수산연수원 오션폴리텍팀) | Gwang-Min YU (Oceanpolytech Team, Korea Institute of Maritime and Fisheries Technology) Corresponding author