In order to succeed in gifted education, it is necessary to educate teachers with professional skills and
qualities that meet the psychological characteristics of gifted students and satisfy their educational desires. The purpose of this study is to explore the characteristics of the science/mathematics gifted students the
preservice teachers who participated in the service learning in the hothousing center annexed to the
university, and the direction in which the Korean hothousing should proceed. For this, the service learning
was conducted in the hothousing institution targeting three students attending A education college for 12
weeks. As a result of study, the gifted children showed the outstanding cognitive, affective, and creative
natures which were expressed positively or negatively according to the situation. The study participants
recognized the teachers had a duty to admit the distinctive nature of the individual gifted children and to
provide the specially contrived education for them for the qualitative improvement of the Korean
hothousing. Simultaneously they thought the gifted children should be regarded as ordinary children before
the gifted persons and treated as the children. The necessity for preservice teachers to take the hothousing
lectures requisitely and provide the learning chance focusing on the practical contents beyond the
hothousing teacher training was brought forward in order to develop the systematic hothousing curriculum.