The objectives of this study were 1) to review legal status of local agricultural extension services during the last fifty years, 2) to propose enacting the new law for local agricultural extension services in Korea. Since Rural Development Act was established, the legal status of extension services was weakened in spite of the most important factor affecting agricultural extension services. It would be necessary to enact the new law prescribed organizational structures and objectives and missions, financial supporting, professional pesonnel management, etc., for development of local extension services after localization.