The purpose of this study is to consider the process of developing institutions in charge of lifelong education
in history focusing on how to devise and install the institutions in the process of making the law of lifelong
education. Most of the advanced research, however, has only dealt with the status, system, or effect of the
Lifelong Education Act, significance of the time for institutionalizing or revising the law, or issues related to it.
Aside from that, the research has been only focused on the functions of institutions in charge of lifelong
education or the cases or operational strategies of them. In fact, it is hard to find research that deals with how
lifelong education institutions have been devised and installed in history through legislation on their maintenance
which this author pays attention to. This study has mainly analyzed the full text of the bills collected, literatures,
newspapers and magazines, and minutes gained from the With the process, this author has drawn following
results: first of all, regarding how to devise and install lifelong education institutions through maintenance
grounded on the law, they have been changed in many ways according to the demand of the time, changes in
the field, or the positions of the government or academic circles. Also, the types have been conceived diversely.
They have evolved in the forms of adults’ education institutions to eliminate illiteracy, social education
institutions to expand culture facilities, county centers, adolescents’ facilities, social education centers, and lifelong
education centers, and so on. In the future, centers in charge of lifelong education will have even more stressed
roles. With this, it will be possible to secure the status of the act effectively and also obtain the right of
learning practically for the people.