The Purpose of this study is to point out some attributes of intrinsic and social background and status attainment process and a life-style of public library directors in KOREA. The data obtained from 188 respondents in 1999 were used for analysis. Some of the main findings are as follows: <TEX>$\circled1$</TEX> The majority of the directors has a career as a teacher or local public administrators rather than a librarian. <TEX>$\circled2$</TEX> The birth places of the directors are scattered all over the country. and those who were born in rural area account for about of all respondents. In rural area. it might be difficult for them to access information on newly developing profession like librarianship. <TEX>$\circled3$</TEX> Although the educational level of directors themselves is higher than general public. <TEX>$\circled4$</TEX> Library schools which give students high grade knowledge and training of library and information science are not so many, and hence directors are primarily local public administrators rather than qualified librarians. <TEX>$\circled5$</TEX> Many directors did not aspire to become librarians. rather they got the post after they had been working as a teachers or lawyer, local public administrators. <TEX>$\circled6$</TEX> If the library services of better quality are provided all over the country, urban or rural, and library schools in higher education are developed and have much more satisfactory substance, and abler library directors. And then we can expect that the qualified librarians's director system in public libraries will become an accomplished fact.