This study investigates 'Cultivating Bookchon’, one of urban regeneration businesses promoted by the city of Seoul in the light of the concept of ecomuseums. It is argued that this business is possible to preserve and succeed traditional culture only by approaching from the concept of ecomuseums since it aims at the preservation of traditional Korean houses. This article defines the structure and functions of ecomuseums to understand their relationship with Bookchon, which is being developed in terms of a historical, cultural value and the preservation of traditional houses. It also explores that ecomuseums are the combination of lifelong learning and local commmuties by studying a system of ecological circulation which brings human, natural and social environment together relatively ignored until now. It suggests the directions of ecomuseum education as a means of subjects and methods, and future-oriented value of musemll education. Ecomuseums consider the life of the living in nature as material evidence. They encourage local population to participate actively in collecting, preserving, studying and exhibiting this life. Therefore, they may be defmed as a non-profit and permanent institution in order to contribute to research, education and science. Ecomuseums are multidisciplinay integrat:ion covering the fields of individul disciplines， and they should cultivate both the nature and human environment of a commmuty over times. One of their specific elements distinguished from conventional museums is to distribute an educat:ional role of museums to the members of the community as the embodiment of ordinary life. In other words, ecomuseums are a communily movement of the commllnity realization in preserving, studying, exhibitng， and educating the ecology of the community. While traditional museums select objects separated from a sense of community, ecomuseums present objects on display derived from the process of history and change of a local community and the lives of local people become the educational material. Museum staff operate the collections, research and development of educational programmes in traditional museums, whereas ecomuseums are maintained by voluntary work and discussions of local people. Educational goals of ecomuseurns should be interactive education for the survival of nature and human beings, peace education for understancling of the characteristics between regions and generations, and living cultural education for continuosly possible development. The educational goal of provided in the cultural center of Boochon is to understand particularity of our culture and practise it. It aims at realization of human beings who may select themes from the life experiences, discover their meanings and values, and practise them as a culture in life It should be considered to make Bookchon as cultivating, house improvement business, or accommodation and experiential space to activate cultural industry. Moreover, local people should cherish and grow their own culture, and make a structure regenerated as cultural industry. They should form a mllseum structure as its original, accept the whole functions of traditional museums such as research, collecting and education, and connect to lI niversity education, specialised human resource, which employs local ecological resource. As traditional culture becomes diluted and disappearing, ’Cultivating Bookchon’ should be approached in multidisciplinary way. Bookchon should be an ecomuseum which introduces museum marketing for reasonable management, improves quality of life, and shifts the direction of existing cultural industry. In order that local people in Bookchon live an ecological life and make it a movement to share, they and institutions concerned should be aware of the concept of ecomuseums. ThllS, Bookchon should be a local museum which discovers, researches and educates their ecologial resource. In the future, if we make Bookchon from the perspective of ecomuseums, this will be a shortcut to preserve traditional culture, and to overcome conflicts from the lack of other cultures, different points of views between generations and uniformity of local cultures according to the policy of new liberalism.