The Concept, Characteristics, and Text Types of Digital Narratives as the Content for Learning the Languages and Cultures of the InternetJeong, Hyeon-seonThis article discusses “aesthetic texts” on the Internet as the content for media language education. Most aesthetics texts found on the Internet are narratives. They are termed as “digital narratives” and the concept, characteristics, and text types are explored in this article.Internet novels and “Fanfics” are identified as a type of “exchange between Internet users” and are mostly romance novels. The writers and readers are teenagers and share their desire for romance and the concerns of young people through these novels. “Webtoons” are also identified as a type of “exchange between Internet users” and are produced by amateur writers. Most webtoons adopt the form of an essay or diary and present the daily lives of young people in their 20s. Internet novels, fanfics, and webtoons belong to popular culture, and therefore, it is more important for students to reflect their own taste for popular stories and their desire for reading such texts.“Hypertext narratives” provide readers with various “linkages” that they can choose to follow. The readers should be able to experience meaningful choices that could lead them to various kinds of ends. A hypertext narrative is a narrative experiment and should be taught for students to understand why literature experiments might be done in such a manner. Game narratives belong to the area of entertainment. They need to be taught for students to have their own perspective of contemporary culture.