시제의 학교문법 기술 -그 문제와 개선방향 모색을 위하여

Tense is one of the important grammatical categories in Korean. So we should not omit this when we describe Korean Grammar. There are so many different opinions on this category. As a natural consequence, it is so difficult to describe tense in Korean grammar textbooks and there are currently many problems in them. In this paper, I analysed how Korean tense is described in Korean grammar textbooks, focusing the first and last government-designed grammar textbooks and the current officially authorized textbooks. I have finally found out problems as the following; 1. The sub-categorization of tense as present, past and future 2. One grammatical form with multiple meanings 3. Introducing relative time reference 4. The discrepancies among textbooks I also proposed solutions for these problems; 1. We should sub-categorize Korean tense into past and non-past. 2. We should describe one form by one meaning as much as we can. 3. We don``t have to introduce relative time reference to Korean tense. 4. We should try to minimize the discrepancies among textbooks.