Papers dealing with Korean phonology in ?Korean Language and Literature?(KLL) from 1963 to 2012 have three characteristics and meanings. First, the substantial and definite research method is more favored than theoretical and formal one. For example, data is focused on dialect, not standard language and functional approach used mainly. So data could be analyzed exhaustively. Second, balances between methodology, subject and range of topic showed to advantage in KLL. Particularly many aspects such as paper quality, scope of contributors, diversity of topic make remarkable progress lately. Third, it have payed attention to the topic left out by main stream. Many scholars in the circle of Korean phonology have had interest in the history of phonological system or synchronic description of present Korean. But paper in KLL handled some other problems. These three point made KLL valuable in spite of ite being local journal.