This thesis tries to analyze and evaluate the contents of literary works in the 7th curricular literature textbooks. The characteristics of works in new literature textbooks compared with those in the 6th curricular ones can e summarized as follows: 1. The latest literary works are selected in the new textbooks without limit to the time when they were written. 2. Literary works by left-wingers and writers and writers who have hone to North Korea are selected in the new textbooks. 3. Literary works by students and amateurs are selected. 4. Literary works by Third World writers are given consequences. 5. Literary works by compatriots in China and North Korean writers are selected. 6. Literary works by pro-Japanese writers are appeared. 7. Various kinds of literary works such as words of songs, interview scripts, newspaper and magazine articles, internet articles, cartoons, pictures and photographs are selected. 8. Many literary works in the 7th curricular literature textbooks become of less importance than when they were in the 6th curricular literature textbooks. But apart from such improvement, the new literature textbooks still have some defects in selected works as follows: 1. Too many works are selected to be covered in class, and there exist wide differences in selected works from textbook to textbook. 2. The importance of foreign literary works is decreased in new textbooks compared with those in the previous textbooks. 3. The disparity in balanced selecting literary works from various genres has not been corrected yet. 4. The number of ancient literary works is lessened in the new textbooks compared with those in the previous textbooks. 5. Some of the literary works in new literature textbooks and those in the national Korean Language textbook are overlapping.