Current State of the Management of Culinary Education and Measures to Educate Human Resources in the Culinary Field

조리교육의 운영 실태와 체계적인 조리인력 양성 방안

This study focused on the culinary curriculums intorduced at the high school, college and university levels in order to analyze the current status and problems associated with the management of culinary related courses, and an effort was made to introduce measures to facilitate the further development of culinary education programs. This study can be summarized as follows: First, the external and internal factors which have led to the changes in the educational environment of the culinary education programs were analyzed. Second, the current state of the management of culinary education was analyzed by focusing on the vocational characteristics of the human resources presently engaged in the culinary field, the state of the management of the culinary courses offered in vocational high schools, colleges, and universities, as well as the characteristics and problems associated with the culinary curriculums at each school level. Lastly, based on the above-mentioned state of the management and the problems associated with culinary education programs, the researcher introduced four measures which were designed to facilitate the education of highly-skilled human resources in the culinary field.