Jejueo is used primarily in informal settings (e.g., in the home), largely by elderly speakers with a strong sense of ethnolinguistic identity. Moreover, here is reason to believe that many people born and raised on Jeju Island speak a colloquial variety of Korean that is in fact a mixed language that draws mostly on Korean but includes some Jejueo as well.

The Jeju Ministry of Education has released 8 online textbooks for elementary and middle schools. Various children’s storybooks have been published in Jejueo, and some newspapers publish Jejueo dialogues and Jejueo novels in serial form. In addition, the Jejueo Preservation Society publishes a bimonthly magazine in Jejueo. Two radio stations broadcast programs that include some Jejueo conversation. One elementary school on Jeju Island has been officially designated by the Jeju Island Ministry of Education as a laboratory (demonstration) school for teaching Jejueo.

A standard Jejueo orthography was developed by a group of researchers and linguists, and guidelines for its use were released in 2013.