Seo, Young-jin This paper tried to look into a necessity that more direct and active education on communication ethics is required in speaking education. For this purpose, researches on communication ethics education and its recognition of Korean language teachers and speking education experts were conducted and factors of communication ethics in speaking education contents were analyzed. In result, it is found that many people share a view that communication ethics education is currently needed. However, concepts of communication ethics were vague and poorly established. Further, contents of communication ethics existed fragmentarily in dialogue or conversation aspects. In the Korean language education curriculum, although there was a category of ‘Hearing & Speaking Ethics’, the concepts were narrowly established. Hence this paper analyzed pre-existing arguments on communication ethics through a prism of Strengths・Weaknesses・Opportunities・ Threats and suggests a direction of communication ethics education and research in the future. Main suggestions are: to pay intentional attention on communication ethics; clear establishment of relevant concepts on communication ethics; more emphasis of factors on communication ethics to improve problematic communication culture and apply the factors to the curriculum; and careful preparation of how to educate communication ethics from a perspective of speaking education beyond declaratory, academic and enlightening approaches. 443 The author hopes this paper with the findings reinvigorate an interest in communication ethics and pave a way to strengthen communication ethics in Korean language education.