This comparative study analyzed extracurricular design education programs led by national institutions in America, England and Korea. American design education for children is founded on "Design Based Education: K-12" program. The core objective of K-12 program is the combination of design and science as a basic education, and the unification of them with daily life. Since 1992, this program has been held every year in Smithsonian, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York. 'Guided School Tours' invite young visitors to "think like designers" as they explore museum exhibitions and use them as a source of inspiration for their own designs. 'Design Directions' is a design program for high school students. 'Summer Design Institute' is an intensive workshop for educators that features international leaders in design education who share their best practices for incorporating design strategies across the K-12 classroom curriculum. 'A City of Neighborhoods: Bridging School and Community' invites a variety of community members to work together to extend the classroom into the community and apply design education to a neighborhood context. With the support of the Design Council, the Design Museum in England is committed to the provision of materials and resources for schools. Design education in England is focused on engineering and structure oriented and more practical comparing with that of other countries. The starting point for developing design awareness at the Museum is the evaluation of mass-produced goods ?exploring how the environment was shaped, why things are the way they are, and how look, work and impact on our everyday lives. and together have the opportunity to investigate a range of mass products. The museum offers children an opportunity to develop their design capability through a variety of exciting workshops linked to National Curriculum. The museum also develops education resource pack for teachers to promote professional development for teachers and state-of-the-art workshops in which world-class designers discuss and demonstrate their work. Design camp for students had been held to enhance interest of design and develop accomplishment through design activity from 1999 in Korea Institute of Design Promotion but suspended because of the budget and lack of publicity. Workshop for art teachers of junior and high school gives the method of how to teach the students basic design and design practice to promote early design education in school. The program deals with how to draw idea, theory and practice of visual design, industrial design, package design and character design and bow to teach design in art education. As compared to other countries, our institutional investment of design education program for children is fairly passive and need more offensive support from governmental level.