This paper outlines some concerns that must be addressed in writing primary school English curriculum and materials in the Korean context and makes suggestions to better the quality of materials made for the next time around. Literature review of current primary school English materials has shown that setting realistic and appropriate program goals based on needs analysis, early introduction of written skills, adoption of graded reading and writing materials, and more informative teacher's guides are needed. Suggestions are made in terms of the organization of the curriculum, language materials, continuity, diversity of needs, class time modules, and teachers’ roles, as well as trainer and teacher training. These issues need to be tackled at the personal, local, and national levels in order to bring out a better outcome in primary school English education and to maintain continuity into the secondary school.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate English education experts’ current general views on the college English curriculum at Korean provincial universities and elicit their consensus of opinion on the distinctive characteristics of the curriculum. For that purpose, two rounds of the delphi survey were presented to forty experts, with thirty one experts’ responses in the first round and nineteen in the second. Based on their responses, the following characteristics of the Korean college English curriculum for provincial universities were deduced as a consensus of opinion: the curriculum is supposed to be more intensive, practical, proficiency-based, and university-specific than the curriculum for the universities in the Metropolitan area; it is supposed to be English for Specific Purposes (ESP) rather than English for General Purposes (EGP) in order to promote the future career of the individual provincial university students and the competitiveness of the provincial universities themselves.