In recent years, the concept of eco-friendly architecture is changing to sustainable architecture, which encompasses the social, economic and cultural approaches. However, to implement sustainable building, there is lack of references presented realistic practices for architects and other relative practitioners. In order to solve these problems, there are various green building guidelines and these guidelines has been led to sustainable architecture. Certifications and guidelines for sustainable buildings have been independently used as the most common instructions among the planning criteria. However, in general, the certifications and guidelines for sustainable buildings are used together and create synergy effects. The relation between certification system and guidelines can be differentiated depends on the function of the guidelines. The types of guidelines are legislation, promotion, and supplementation. And the supplemental type of guidelines has complementary characteristic with green building certification system. For the appropriate regional development of sustainable architecture, supplemental type of guidelines is needed to be developed in the future. The supplemental type of guidelines is based on green building certification system and it reflects regional priority and requirements. And the guidelines follows the composition of green building certification systems and applies the items of environmental sustainability of regions from the certification systems. Also, the guidelines includes the economical sustainability and social sustainability which are not applied in the certification system. In this context, the aim of this study is to provide the basis for development of national green building guidelines by examining the correlation between green building certifications and guidelines.