The role of the department of statistics in Korea is discussed. There are more than 70 statistics departments in the universities throughout the country. However, we can hardly find that statisticians and statistical service organizations who are responsible for, for example, identifying the statistical services needed by clients in our society. In developed countries, statistics is now widely employed in all areas of societies including industry and government. Statistics and statisticians also have vital internal roles in production, research, marketing, and support functions of the modern corporation as stated by Marquardt(1987). Professors in the department of statistics are responsible for solving the problems with the discipline of statistics and with statisticians. In this article some of those problems are explored.