This study is about Career Education, which is an effective adult education, in modern society. It is considered that synthetic and standardized adult education programs with statistical methods have difficulties to satisfy various individual learning needs in individualizing modern society. An individual in the process of modernization is considered to be effective by self directed learning through reconstruction of experience. Active educational method means an individual learning in the process of self realization and an effective solution of his problems through construction of new perspective of life. The preface of this article shows that the dispute on sociological individualization has vitalized the study of career history in adult education. The main issue of the study of career history and its empirical researches. Today entering into an aging society, the significance of lifelong education becomes more important in Korea. The study of Career history, as a qualitative research, shows a real life of socialization through studying the process of career history with a personal view in real life. The study of career is making its appearance as a new paradigm in adult education.