The government has recently made creativity and character education one of its national
goals and emphasized the importance of character education, but schools seem to neglect
character education due to the strong demand for study while recognizing its importance.
There have been efforts to connect the kindergarten curriculum with the elementary
curriculum through the Nuri Curriculum, but there has been a shortage of research on
connections between kindergarten and elementary school in terms of character education. It
is thus difficult to apply it to the field of education. This study thus set out to collect the
beliefs and practice cases of character education from kindergarten and elementary school
teachers through an in-depth one-on-one interview with them and provide basic data to
search for ways to connect character education in kindergarten with that in elementary
school. The investigator selected three kindergartens and one elementary school operated by
the same foundation, visited four kindergarten and elementary school teachers each for an
interview, and conducted a survey on teachers' beliefs with them. As a result, all the
teachers agreed on the importance of character education, recognized a need for it, and
were actually providing it. All the elementary school teachers that participated in the
interview said that there were no connections between character education and academic
achievement, which is contrary to the findings of previous studies that reported character
education had positive influences on academic achievement. Both kindergarten and
elementary school teachers thought that teachers' beliefs would have large impacts on
character education, but the actual interview analysis results show that beliefs were not
reflected on educational activities in some cases.