This study aims to identify the characteristics of character education contained in National Physical Education Curriculum in terms of contents and construction, problems and limitation, and improvement plans by analyzing character texts such as the concept, expression mode, and context of character in goals, contents, teaching and learning methods, and evaluation of Physical Education Curriculum in accordance with the 2009 Revised National Curriculum. For criteria of analysis, character and character education were defined in a conditioning manner in terms of emotion, sociality, and morality, which grasped the implication based on the concept, meaning, and context of character text by using content analysis. The character education of National Physical Education Curriculum has currently compensated the concept of creativity‧character, and core competency as of the 2007 National Physical Education Curriculum, defining the concept of character as desirable personality, sociality, and morality, and setting up self management ability and interpersonal relationship ability as category. However, herein identified were ambiguity of the meaning between character and other concepts and ambiguity of the meaning boundary of detailed virtue in the concept of character in terms of the concept and the range of character, insufficiency of school-level systemicity and sequence between curriculum items in terms of character text selection and organization, and deficiency of the character education principles of physical education and practical teaching and learning methods of it in terms of character education methods. For next revision of National PE Curriculum, a full consideration is required for providing principles of teaching and learning methods on character and evaluation cases based on research on conceptualization of physical character, research on suitability and sequence of content subsystem of character, and cases of field practice.
