Chinese characters are one of the longest-running text in the world, which has not been abolished so far. East Asian countries, especially Northeast Asia, are inextricably linked by Chinese characters. Moreover, Chinese characters has been the Korean people’s writing system in the past two thousand years. Therefore, Chinese Character is an important component in Korean language. Korean vocabulary incluedes two systems, that is, original Korean vocabulary and Sino-Korean vocabulary. Original Korean is the vocabulary that used by Korean people for thousands of years. Sino-Korean is the vocabulary that borrowed from Chinese and Japanese words created by Chinese characters. In Korea, many scholars have carried out a detailed analysis and deep research about Chinese Characters. On the basis of the previous scholars’ research, this paper makes a preliminary study on the usage and status of Chinese characters in Korea, in view of the present situation of Korea. The first section pointed out the research background, purpose and method of this paper; the second section have reviewed results of previous studies and the process of Chinese Character’s education. Moreover, the status of Chinese Characters in Korea will be described; the third section focused on the usage and countermeasures of Chinese characters; Finally, the result of this paper has been summarized in the last section