[en] In Korea, design concepts of sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFR_s) have been developed since 1997 by the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI). The 255^th Atomic Energy Commission of Korea, held in Dec. of 2008, determined a long-term research and development plan for future nuclear systems including the SFR. According to the plan, it is scheduled to submit an application for licensing of an SFR demonstration reactor in 2017. In order to prepare the licensing of the demonstration reactor, the general design requirements (GDR_s) for the SFR should be established because they are used as rules in the safety evaluation of the design for the licensing by the regulatory body. The current GDR_s were developed based on the design of the LWR and enacted as the articles 12 to 49, including the article 2, in the 'Regulations on Technical Standards for Nuclear Reactor Facilities, Etc' (hereafter referred to as 'regulations on technical standards'), which is the Ordinance No. 1 of the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology. In this paper, the applicability of the current GDR_s for the LWR to the design of the SFR was evaluated as a part of activities to develop the GDR_s for the SFR