The purpose of this study was to analyze research trend of the young children s music listening education through the examination of the theses published in Korea and to suggest tips for ways of research development as an academic field for the development of child s musicality in future. The 87 master s and five doctoral dissertations on the young children s music listening education published in Korea during the past two decades were examined according to the research subjects, themes, methods, most effectively concerned variables and the utilized music genre based on the literatural review on research trend. The results of this study are as follows: Total 92 theses and dissertation related to the young children s music listening education were published from 1998 to 2017 in the Korean graduate schools were utilized for contents analysis. First, 5-year-olds children were the most representative subjects in terms of age concerned. Second, the greatest number of research theme was classroom teaching method, and music listening integration within the artistic areas was the most popular teaching method. Third, quantitative research was the major research method contrary to zero qualitative research. Fourth, numbers of studies were dealt with musical development as the effective variable of music listening. Fifth, classical music was the mostly preferable genre utilized in the children s music listening education research. From these results, needs for the extension of future study in terms of the ages of research subjects, research themes, method and the selection of dependant variables, and utilizing music genres were suggested.