It is the study to analyze the problem of design promotion policy system in Korea and to seek for the improvement direction. In the national competition system, our government selected the national main business for the next generation and design has been designated as a main industry along with other most advanced industries. Our government has already supported design and design industry directly and indirectly from the middle of the 1960`s and backed up it as a national basic industry with the political support in the middle of 1990`s. This has played a great role in improving the outside competitive power and increasing the national image of our products. However, in spite of the unprecedented national support for design, there are continual argument about its result. As a result, it is demanded to review the efficiency of design promotion policy and philosophy and direction of the policy. At first, this summarizes the concept of design policy, reviews the social recognition and then clarifies the structure and characteristics of design policy system in the political aspect. And it analyzes the concrete situation of design promotion policy by the government in `the strategy of the participating government for the design industry development`, `comprehensive guide for design promotion`, `design census`, etc. to prepare the frame of logical basis for the problems and improvement direction. It may be possible to propose the direction and index for the improvement and the results can be useful informations to establish the design policy in the future by explaining the general problems in the design promotion policy system in Korea.