Kang Bosun This study investigated critically the existing education of standard pronunciation rules and discussed the direction of education of standard pronunciation rules. For this, I investigated the education of standard pronunciation rules have been focused on the understanding of rule of standard pronunciation rules through curriculum and textbook in the chapter II. And I labeled the characteristic of standard pronunciation rules as regulation which is needed to follow, product of own language policy of Korea, the gap with real pronunciation, and I deducted edu- cational implication from those characteristic in the chapter III. Finally I discussed the direction of education of standard pronunciation rules on the basis of the chapter III in the chapter IV. I suggested the improvement of acceptive competence through realistic understanding and critical acceptance of standard pronunciation rules and the improvement of ap- pling competence through attitude formation and provide of application opportunity as the direction of education of standard pronunciation rules.