The purpose of this study was to explore the changes of kindergarten teacher's cognition about the
traditional culture education for teachers and its educational role. 18 teachers currently working at the
kindergarten located in S-City participated in this study. To find out the effect of the traditional culture
education for teachers, semi-structured individual interview, self evaluation journal, daily observation report,
photos and other relevant materials taken in each step were collected and analyzed. The results were
summarized based on a qualitative analysis. First, teachers’ knowledge and understanding about the
traditional culture increased after their participation in the education. Second, teachers became more
interested and engaged in traditional cultural activities after the education. Third, teachers’ pride and
self-confidence in the traditional culture improved. Lastly, there has been improvement observed in
teachers’ attitude, technique and ability to apply the traditional culture to Nuri curriculum in a
cooperative way. This study also discusses how the traditional culture education for teachers contributes to
positive changes to kindergartners.