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Purpose: This study aims to compare difficulties in sex education for school health teachers and home economic teachers. This is a descriptive that aims to understand awareness for sex education and to provide baseline data for sex education empowerment and improvement. Method: Structure questionnaires were mailed to a total of 890 teachers including 445 school health teachers located in 150 schools in Seoul, 240 schools in Gyeonggi-do Province and in 55 schools in Incheon and, also, to 445 home economic teachers. 410 questionnaires were returned. Excluding 10 incomplete questionnaires, a total of 400 questionnaires were analyzed using SPSS 21.0. Results: The biggest difficulties that the sex education teachers face were students’ varying development levels and attitudes toward sex. Secondly, teachers identified difficulties in controlling students’ access to pornography due to their smart phone access and SNS. Thirdly, a lack of consensus in social value in school sex education. The significant difference between school health teachers and home economic teachers came from school curriculums that focus on college entrance examinations. Such curriculums resulted in difficulties in establishing class hours for sex education, difficulties in selecting teacher for sex education due to large scaled classes. It was shown that school health teachers were having more difficulties than home economic teachers. Conclusion: Because the difficulties that school health teachers and home economic teachers face are different, policies should be different for each teacher. Training programs to empower teachers for sex education should be provided to increase teachers’ confidence and dignity.

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