The purpose of this research is to investigate situations and grope for directions of religious education in Korea. Through the process of this research, we tried to find out points of issue of religious education and examined the new directions of religious education that should be persued in the near future.To achieve these purposes, in chapter 2, in the title of situations of religious education I organized situations of religious in Korea like this; 1)problems of the school equalization policy, 2)teachers trained by faith education, 3)subjects laying emphasis on faith education, and so on. And I investigated concrete examples to present constructive directions of religious education.In chapter 3, points of issues of religious education , I classified two different issues of religious education. The first issue was, the identity of religious education that have two oppositional points of views from the time of 4th. national curriculum standard. The second issue was the possibility of connection between religious education and other education including moral education. The chapter 4, in the title of new direction of religious education , I layed stress on the basic rules of the religious education; individuality within publicity, freedom of religion, liberal education as Humanities.