The study aims to examine internationalization of institutions for teacher education, to compare with cases in other countries and to seek for suggestions to improve quality of Korean teacher education colleges and universities. Korea moves rapidly into multiculral and pulral society under the influence of globalization. The increase of foreign labors, and multicultural family, and students with international experience urged teachers to be prepared with global competence. However, the study pointed out that current teacher education institutions are not geared toward internationalizing their education yet. Based on the three comparative case analyses of Japanese, French, and Australian teacher education institutions and SWOT analysis of Korean one, the study suggested as followings. First, the teacher education institutions are required to built a concrete objectives and effective strategies. Second, administrative and financial supports as well as infrastructure for internationalization must be prepared to integrate international components into curriculum and programs for teacher education. Third, from the long term perspectives, teacher education system needs drastic reform to enhance competitiveness of public education as well as to cope with the demand of social changes toward globalization.