Purpose: This study aimed to identify and compare hospice care research topics between Korean and international nursing studies using textnetwork analysis. Methods: The study was conducted in four steps: 1) collecting abstracts of relevant journal articles, 2) extracting and cleaningkeywords (semantic morphemes) from the abstracts, 3) developing co-occurrence matrices and text-networks of keywords, and 4) analyzingnetwork-related measures including degree centrality, closeness centrality, betweenness centrality, and clustering using the NetMiner program. Abstracts from 347 Korean and 1,926 international studies for the period of 1998–2016 were analyzed. Results: Between Korean and internationalstudies, six of the most important core keywords—“hospice,” “patient,” “death,” “RNs,” “care,” and “family”—were common, whereas “cancer”from Korean studies and “palliative care” from international studies ranked more highly. Keywords such as “attitude,” “spirituality,” “life,” “effect,”and “meaning” for Korean studies and “communication,” “treatment,” “USA,” and “doctor” for international studies uniquely emerged as corekeywords in recent studies (2011~2016). Five subtopic groups each were identified from Korean and international studies. Two common subtopicswere “hospice palliative care and volunteers” and “cancer patients.” Conclusion: For a better quality of hospice care in Korea, it is recommendedthat nursing researchers focus on study topics of patients with non-cancer disease, children and family, communication, and pain andsymptom management.