Abstract: This study investigated the food hygiene knowledge, attitude and practice of the home day care center directors and teachers in Cheongju area to see if there is a necessity of safety management and hygiene education about the food service provided for the children. The result of investigating the food hygiene knowledge shows that the rate of correct answers was low in items such as the proper temperature of the refrigerator (35.6%) and the freezer (31.3%) and the proper storage temperature for the hot cooked food (9.8%) and the cold food (36.2%). The result of conducting crossover analysis of the answers for the food hygiene knowledge about the hygiene education shows that the distribution of the correct answer percentage between a group that has had hygiene education and one that has not showed a significant difference (p<0.001) in items such as "the possibility of causing food poisoning by the cook with digestive disorder", "the proper temperature of the refrigerator and the freezer" and "the proper storage temperature of the cooked food". As for the food hygiene attitude, the rate of the hygiene attitude was low in "prohibition of wearing accessories when dealing with cooked food (57.1%" and "the possibility of excrement germ contamination of the used diapers (62.0%)" and there was a significant difference in the distribution between a group that has had hygiene education and one that has not in all the items except for washing hands (p<0.05, p<0.01, p<0.001). As for the food hygiene practice, the practice rate was low in the items such as "prohibition of wearing accessories (34.4%)", "separate use of the cooking utensils for raw food and cooked food (14.7%)", "checking expiration date (46.6%)" and "wearing hygiene gloves when distributing food (34.4%)". And there was a significant distribution difference between a group that has had hygiene education and one that has not (p<0.001) in three items such as "prohibition of wearing accessories", "separate use of the cooking utensils for raw food and cooked food" and "wearing hygiene gloves when distributing food". The results of this study show that a group with no hygiene education was worse in hygiene than the one with hygiene education in various items of the food hygiene knowledge, attitude and practice. Therefore, hygiene education is needed for all the staff members including the directors, teachers and cooks of the home child care centers and there also needs to be field education for safe management of meals for the children.