This article is aimed to work out practical alternatives to improve the liberal arts education from the perspective of a practitioner in the humanities. The liberal arts education as well as the humanities has long been said to be sidelined in the Korean higher education system due to its exclusive emphasis on the departmental structure and professional education. Recently. However, with some changes to global economy, the humanities has been called from its status of an object of crisis to become a creative source for the production of economic profits. Some scholars in the humanities welcome this resuscitation as a great chance to save their practices from a denigration of outdated impracticality, while others are more suspectful of the possibility that their hard-won truth may be capitalized on by the greedy global economic corporations. Tracing, first, more than a century of history of the humanities from Matthew Arnold, through F.R. Leavis to the current dominance of Theory, and then, the half-century history of the liberal arts education since its inception up to now in the Korean higher education, the article shows its practitioners tend to have reinforced specialization in its competition with the social and natural sciences, with a consequence that they have been increasingly secluded from the popular interests of the masses and have been increasingly secluded from the popular interests of the masses and have restricted communication only to themselves of the masses and have restricted communication only to themselves increasingly with highly abstract jargons. Arguing that specialization has been for the most large part responsible for the current crisis of the liberal arts eduction in most of the Korean universities, this article comes up with some practical, even radical, alternatives, including disbanding the college of humanities, to bring the liberal arts education onto the center of higher educational system.