This study used 73 master’s and doctoral dissertations published in Korea from 1984 to 2010 to analyze the problems and solutions to research methods on KFD. The summary of the results was as follows. First, with respect to different types of study, literature researches, experiment(case) researches, and investigation researches comprised 1.4%, 4.1% and 94.5% respectively. Most studies (78.3%) did not mention the sampling methods. Therefore, it is necessary in further studies to explicitly mention how studies extract data. Second, the majority of a KFD scoring method was Burns(32.4%). There were more researches which do not present the reliability between scorers (44.9%) than ones which do present the reliability(55.1%), further studies should include the reliability between scorers. Third, in terms of writing utensils and paper types, most used HB(4B) with the frequency of 57.5% and A4 paper with the frequency of 72.6%. However, there is a considerable number of researches in which other paper types and writing utensils were used. Although the majority (90.4%) of the articles has a general instruction to subjects, it is found that many researches did not provide more specific instructions which could have improved the overall results of the researches.Thus, evaluation should take place with common uses of paper and writing utensils (for example, A4 and HB(4B)) and precise instructions to research subjects.