The purpose of this study was to identify the health status, perception and experience for health education, needs for health education contents in high school students and to select areas and contents of health education curriculum. This study was surveyed 728 adolescents in high school from Sep. 11 1997 till Sep. 26 1997. The results were as follows. 1. For the perceived health status, 65.5% of the boys and 59.8% of the girls answered they were healthy. 18.8% of the boys and 59.8% of the girls experienced disease during the last year. 2. 67.3% of the boys and 71.6% of the girls acknowledge the necessity of health education. 3. For the experience of health education, girls(82.7%) were reported high experience rates than the boys(51.3%). To the question of the instruction period, boys answered as middle school(84.0%) and girls as high school(77.2%). To the instruction teacher, many of respondents answered the school nurse (boys 80.0%, girls 73.3%). The satisfaction for contents they were taught were low(boys 21.4%, girls 31.7%). 4. The most desired areas of health education were Sex Education and Mental Health. The following were Health-Habit and Prevention of Disease in a sequent order. 5. The boys showed a high acknowledgement on Sex education, Health-Habit and Mental Health. 6. The girls showed a high acknowledgement on Sex education, nutrition and Mental Health. 7. The areas of health education curriculum were selected as follows: Nutrition, Growth and Development, Health-Habits, Prevention of Disease, Mental Health, Tabacco, Alcohol and other Drugs, Safety Education, Sex Education, Family Life and Health, Enviromental Health, Consumer Health.