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Recently Europe focuses on youth entrepreneurship as an alternative means of income creation among the young employment initiatives to solve the increasing youth unemployment. Youth entrepreneurship under the 21st century innovative knowledge-based society is requisite components of sustainably growing economy through creativity and innovation of young people. European countries, UK, France, Germany, Finland and Sweden as analytical objects in this article are all developed welfare states which have overcome their young unemployment by ALMP, concentrated on youth entrepreneurship available to increase employment opportunities, and drives varied programmes related to it on the national and local dimension recently. Korea has also provided institutionally supports on taxation and administration in order to promote youth entrepreneurship, an alternative to solving the lack of new jobs for young people, but there are a few theoretical discourses concretely on what the youth entrepreneurship should be and how the methodologies are used. In addition, it tends to respectively replicate just the case of policy success in a certain country without considering that the youth entrepreneurship is embedded on social, cultural context of a nation in spite that it might be more effective to draw an implication on the ground of an analysis of the varied similar policy cases. For these matters this article aims to conduct comparative analyzing for the youth entrepreneurship of five countries in Europe based on theoretical review, and to draw comprehensively lessons for Korean youth entrepreneurship policy from the European prior experiences.