It has been almost twenty years since speaking education was launched in earnest in universities of Korea, however educating the students how to speak has not been properly vitalized as yet. Thus, this study focuses on finding educational directions as well as setting up the objectives of speaking education for university students. In order to achieve that, the present state of speaking education in universities is investigated, and a survey is conducted for university students and office workers to reflect the requests and demands of customers in the objectives and goals of speaking education. This study ascertains that there is a need of speaking education to be vitalized in universities as the university students and office workers feel strongly about the need of it, whereas there is no effective speaking education in the secondary schools. And based on the previous studies, analysis of textbooks and survey results, the objectives of speaking education in universities are set as to enhance communicative competence for well-rounded human relationships and to nurture talents required by the society, developing such competence while they are in universities. In order to enhance communicative competence for well-rounded human relationships, it would be needed to develop various courses related to teaching conversational methods to be included in liberal arts courses for students to choose from, and in order to develop individual abilities, it is necessary to develop courses involving presentation and discussion to be included in liberal arts courses as compulsory subjects. In addition, to provide theoretical background for the development of these courses, it would be necessary to develop not only major subjects that focus on speaking theories but also theories in teaching speech in which teaching methods are discussed. It is without saying that the development of textbooks has to be carried out alongside the development of such courses.