In Korea, English education officially started in 1883, when the government established an English language school to train interpreters (matsumoto 2003;E. kim 2008) in the 1880s, other school, both governmental and private, also opened and English was taught by English and American teachers who were invited or come to korean for missionary work. One school, established in 1886, taught not only English but all subjects in English. The reason behind the introduction of English language teaching was the Korean awareness of the need for modernization, is emphasized in studies of Korean modern history (Masumoto 2003).