History of Counseling in South KoreaThe Counseling Profession was established in South Korea through a cross-cultural collaboration. Counseling was introduced by the United States Educational Delegation in the 1950s in Korea (Jang, 2009;Seo, Kim, & Kim, 2007). Between 1952 and 1962, American delegates visited and initiated educational missions by introducing the western concepts of counseling, guidance theories and methods. In 1963, the Ministry of Education acknowledged the need to have "Disciplinary Guidance Teachers" in middle and high schools, and the 1963 Education Act was established. Due to ill-defined roles and structures for the Disciplinary Guidance Teachers, the counseling profession was not successfully incorporated into the Korean school system until the 1990s (Lee, Oh, & Suh, 2007). In the 1990s, the Disciplinary Guidance Teachers were retitled as "Career Counseling Teachers" and again changed to "Professional School Counseling Teachers" by the 1997 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (Lee et al., 2007). The 2004 Elementary and Secondary School Education Act had a significant impact on the School Counseling profession by providing federal funds for services and training. In the late 2000s, the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development started placing full-time Professional School Counseling Teachers in secondary schools, and the number of student served by school counselors has increased.