The purpose of this study is to suggest the direction and tasks of the educational welfare. The specific purposes are as follows: First, the conceptional model of the educational welfare will be provided, the conceptional attributions of the educational welfare will be examined in accordance to the conceptional factors of the model, and the picture of the society where the educational welfare is accomplished will be presented. Second, the paradigm and conditions of the educational welfare for which Korean society would purse will be examined. Third, the crucial tasks for the educational welfare policy will be addressed. The employed methodologies for the study are the historical reviews on the Korean educational welfare policy, logical reviews on literatures related to welfare, and exploratory researches that rationalize normative value in order to refine the directions for the educational welfare. Based upon these methodologies, the directions of the educational welfare policy are set up, and the major tasks are provided. These major tasks are public education for educational welfare, the righteous educational welfare policy, and revitalization of local education.