This study was conducted to evaluate whether the social work practice education provided in colleges is actually achieving its goal of training students to become able social workers equipped with the professional values, knowledge, and skills needed in the field. More specifically, the study attempted to find out which contents and methods of social work practice education are helpful and unhelpful in addition to exploring the areas that need to be improved for the education to become more effective. For this end, a qualitative study using focus group interview was carried out with 7 social workers who have 5 or more years of work experience and are all working in different social work fields. The social workers who participated in the study emphasized that the social work values and ethics are the subject matter that deserves utmost attention in social work practice education, that social work practice education needs to be transformed from a simple delivery of knowledge to a more
practice oriented one, and that social work education needs to become more systematic and integrated. Based on the study results, alternative measures to resolve the problems evident in current social work practice education were suggested.