The fungi of the Republic of Korea for the first record can be found in the Samguksagi the Kim Busik 1145 authored.Seven species of fungi were introduced by Heo Jun, who court physician at the Chosun Dynasty in Dongui Bogam(1613) which text of traditional Korean medicine.The modem way of Uyeki (1919) and Okada (1932) and by the eady research was done.The 33 species of fungi were published for the first time in the Korean plant Illustrated at 1956.A list of 586 species was published from the Korean Society of Mycology in 1978.At 1996, 1,128 species had been cataloged by the Nature Conservation Central Council supported from Ministry of Environment.