In this study, we investigated the issues surrounding democratic citizenship education in Korean academia of history education. A decade ago, discussions on democratic citizenship education began by critically reflecting established discourses of history education; recently, those discussions have been expanded to various research topics. However, some scholars have been concerned with them, and they particularly disagreed with the specific ways to implement democratic citizenship education in history education. Thus, in this paper, we examined how history education could be integrated in democratic citizenship education. Above all, we discussed the meanings of democracy, democratic education, or democratic citizenship education, as concepts should be the basis for further discussion. Additionally, we examined the specific contexts that the discourses of democratic citizenship education started in Korean academia, and then critically reviewed the multiple discussions on democratic citizenship education. Finally, we argued that the values of history as the humanities are in line with the ultimate purpose of democratic citizenship education.