This study aims to develop a program on art education using picture books for global citizenship education with the need for global citizenship education from a new perspective of empathy and practice as a learning area and to find out how students and teachers influence global citizenship. The implementation of the program was proposed focusing on empathy ability for first graders in elementary school. In order to improve empathy ability, the object of empathy was extended beyond other to surrounding phenomena and environments. After the implementation of the program, in the case of students, changes in the ability to understand others and teachers in terms of the ability to understand practical empathy occurred. The detailed research problems of this study are as follows. How does the global citizenship of first-year elementary school students change through the global citizenship education program to improve their empathy? What is the professionalism and role of teachers who teach global civic education in the process of program execution? The conclusion on this is as follows. Students brought about a strong change in citizenship through empathy through changing positions and experience of empathy through visualization activities. Teachers also brought about changes in the understanding ability of practical empathy, and had an educational meaning that students empathy ability could be improved through the role of modeling providers and global civic education experts. This study is meaningful in that it sought ways that the emotional empathy of students and teachers plays a positive role and art education can be centered on cultivating empathy skills in the era of globalization.