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Methods: A nationwide voluntary online survey was completed by 1273 elementary, middle, and high school teachers between October and November 2024. Resource outcomes were analyzed in the full sample, whereas the educational needs assessment was limited to 575 teachers who had directly implemented a program supported by the Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS). Participants rated the perceived importance and self-reported current implementation of 32 topics. Topic priorities were assessed using paired comparisons with false discovery rate adjustment, Borich scores, and the Locus for Focus model; exploratory subgroup and multivariable analyses examined variation in the importance\u2013implementation gaps. Results: Perceived importance exceeded self-reported current implementation for 31 of the 32 topics after false discovery rate adjustment. The leading priorities included late night eating, adolescents and caffeine, healthier convenience store food choices, excessive weight control practices, and eating disorders. The overall importance\u2013implementation gap was larger among elementary than middle\/high school teachers (0.284 vs. 0.149, p &lt; 0.001), and this difference remained after multivariable adjustment (B = \u22120.122, p = 0.001). Awareness and use were lower for the MFDS YouTube channel than for the food safety information website; lack of awareness was the most common reason for not using education-specific resources. Conclusions: Government agencies should combine classroom-ready, developmentally tailored content with active dissemination and teacher training. The identified priorities reflect the perception of teachers with direct implementation experience and should be complemented by future studies using observed implementation measures and student outcomes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/nu18172843","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,31]],"date-time":"2026-08-31T04:24:03Z","timestamp":1788150243000},"page":"2843","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Teacher-Identified Priorities and Resource Use in Government-Supported School Food and Nutrition Education in Korea"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0941-3664","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Seung Jae","family":"Lee","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Food and Nutrition, Yongin University, Yongin 17092, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"conceptualization","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"methodology","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"formal-analysis","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"investigation","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"writing-original-draft","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"writing-review-editing","vocabulary":"credit"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4152-8306","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jieun","family":"Oh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Science & Industry Convergence, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"conceptualization","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"investigation","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"writing-review-editing","vocabulary":"credit"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4430-3241","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kyung Won","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Home Economics Education, Korea National University of Education, Cheongju 28173, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"conceptualization","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"methodology","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"formal-analysis","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"investigation","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"writing-original-draft","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"writing-review-editing","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"supervision","vocabulary":"credit"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"287","article-title":"School-based nutrition education programs and services for adolescents","volume":"7","author":"Story","year":"1996","journal-title":"Adolesc. 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