This paper presents an essay on new methodologies for "cultural language literature" called Korean language literature as an attempt to take the crisis of Korean language literature today serious and innovate and overcome it with a theory of culture. The crisis of Korean language literature today is attributed to academic abstractness due to excessive professionalism and social alienation due to the absence of communication with the public. A new term to overcome it in a practical fashion is "cultural language literature." Cultural language literature means an approach to language and literature based on a theory of culture. The specific objectives for it include overcoming the limitations of research centered around texts, discovering living culture through a microhistoric approach, establishing an integrated and trans-boundary perspective, conducting a pragmatic research, and discovering and globalizing local culture. The present study set such research directions as research on Korean language literature of communication and cooperation, activation of local unit culture research, and implementation of practical values of language and literature study. Cultural language literature is not an established methodology but a progressive one currently being created, but there are already grounds for its existence owing to the limitations with the inside of Korean language literature and the academic and cultural requests on the outside. The study proposes cultural language literature, which is new language literature to pursue both professionalism and popularity in such an academic flow, and expects the new development of research breakthroughs in Korean language literature based on the establishment of cultural language literature theories.