Year by year, the population of experts is decreasing, who deal in wood which has been Japanese traditional building material from ancient times. In wooden house market, development of new building methods rather than traditional ones, and appearance of new way of production like pre-cut lessen the amount of skilled worker's jobs. That makes it harder to hand down the traditional skills to enough numbers of the next generation engineers. On the other hand, increase of the demand for wooden houses brings rapid expansion to Korean wooden house market. Various problems are coming to light, that are to be better on. As far as the present condition is concerned, training the next generation of engineers is essential as a way of popularization of wooden houses in Korea. Therefore, in this study, we investigate Japanese vocational schools of carpenter, and reveal existing conditions and problems, then put our considerations, examine and propose the remedial ideas, aiming at contributing to bringing on Japanese talented engineers and to popularization of wooden houses in Korea.
