The Republic of Korea turned into ruins due to the Korean Civil War by the North Korean invasion and degenerated into one of the world's poorest countries. Then it has overcame the numerous difficulties achieving the "Miracle on the Han River" and today the international community has admired the economic and political development it has achieved. However, as the Korean peninsula is in the armistice and is facing North Korea's physical and psychological provocation and threat, the patriotism is treated as an important norm in Korean society even though it may sound like rather an old fashioned and hackneyed concept after the post-Cold War era. Moreover, the data collected by Ministry of Public Administration and Security and other survey agencies show that the Korean people’s patriotic spirit or patriotism is relatively low in general. Especially, in case of students, the higher the grade rises, the lower the students' patriotism is. If that’s the case, what kind of patriotism do need to educate for people and students in particular? Are all ‘patriotisms’appropriate to infuse into them? The concept of moderate patriotism tries to avoid negative characteristics of cosmopolitanism that allows for no attachment and loyalty to one’s country and compatriots. If patriotism is morally unacceptable, as some philosophers believe, then education for patriotism cannot be tolerated, although some other non-moral reasons might be in favour of such education. In other words, Korean society and schools should promote morally acceptable types of patriotism such as ‘moderate patriotism’,‘constitutional patriotism’, and‘cosmopolitan patriotism’. On the contrary, an extreme patriotism offends against the requirement of universality and impartiality of moral judgment. It is an arbitrary, morally illegitimate type of partialism,’and should be rejected. In addition to morality in patriotism education, the other norm for patriotism education is humanitarianism which has been fairly marginalized with the resurgence of nationalism, ultranationalism and even chauvinism in many countries around the world. Since one of the consequences of the revival of these ideologies was ethnic conflict or even war, the close relation between the ideologies and patriotism has posed a challenge to political and moral philosophy to reconsider the meaning of patriotism. The ideologies force the nation to sacrifice and self-justify for themselves in the name of distorted ‘patriotism’ which ignores humanitarianism.