Abstract
This paper considers the problem of consumer education in the 21st century through the research trend of consumer education and the analysis of consumer education activity by consumer organizations and the hearing investigation into consumer educator in Korea.
The results show regarding, the educational content of the consumer organizations, consumer information, finance, and the marketing method, have been diversified and specialized. The consumer educator pointed out the need to enhance the consumer education policy support and the role of the consumer's union that induced consumer participation and the consumer education at an early stage.
It is preferable to be able to achieve consumer participation by various means like an online community and the NPO activity. Requests to take this up more as a main content of consumer education in the future will be made.
