This study regards elementary school teachers as being responsible for the development and education of children s language abilities, making it imperative for them to form an awareness of Korean education, which is the basis for educational practice. Hence, the perception of what should be important in elementary Korean education was investigated among 138 pre-service teachers. Based on these perceptions, the purpose of this study was to draw implications for the elementary school teacher training process. As a result of analysis by topic modeling, pre-service teachers perceptions of elementary Korean education were categorized as: basic education and writing education, expression education centered on opinions and speaking, literacy education centered on reading education, and language use education centered on speaking. Keywords were extracted by performing semantic network analysis for each category. In addition, the structure of perception was explored by examining the roles and positions these keywords occupy in the network. Based on this analysis, the importance of forming awareness of Korean education among pre-service teachers was re-emphasized. In addition, implications were drawn toward the educational content to be supplemented in the teacher-training process.