The present study investigated demand for, awareness of and satisfaction with Korean language class among the hearing-impaired students attending a combined class in a normal school in order to find out how to improve Korean language teaching and learning for combined classes. For the purpose of this study, 6 hearing-impaired students attending combined class were selected for data collection via a questionnaire survey and interviews. As a result of analysing the data, it was found that the hearingimpaired students surveyed and interviewed here did not show high awareness of, demand for and satisfaction with Korean language curriculum. Also, students’interest in Korean language class and the content they mainly wanted to learn and relevant methods were found variable depending on individual differences in reading and writing skills of the hearing-impaired students as well as the instructional
processes of schools they attended. In addition, teachers in charge of combined classes need improve qualities for managing such classes and develop teaching methods that can refinelearning environment for characteristics and demands of students. The findings in this study are limited in general ability due to the small number (6) of study subjects and the narrow geographical region, in which sense further studies are required to include more extensive regions and more samples. Further specific studies on awareness of, demand for and satisfaction with Korean language curriculum would positively improve the quality of combined education for the hearing-impaired students nationwide.