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Due to the development of media in the rapidly changing and developing information age, adolescents' interest in their appearance has been heightened increasingly, and they have strong desires to improve their appearance by imitating makeup, hair styles, nail art etc. of celebrities shown in media and they are expressing them actively through beauty management behavior. The current study aims to investigate the use of media and beauty information and beauty management behavior surveying with youngsters in Gyeonggi-do province to obtain data related to them. Through SPSS16.0, this study conducted frequency analysis to invest demographic characteristics of subjects surveyed, T-test analysis to investigate differences in the use of media depending on adolescents' characteristics, T-test analysis to investigate differences in the use of information depending on adolescents' characteristics, and T-test analysis to investigate differences in beauty management behavior depending on adolescents' characteristics. As a result first, as a result of comparing the use of media depending on adolescents' characteristics, films appeared highest on the whole and the next was in order of TV, internet, and smart phones. Second, as a result of comparing the use of beauty information depending on adolescents' characteristics, it was found that for a factor of the active use of beauty information, female students than male students, high school students than middle school students, students who have their girl or boy friend than those who do not, and students who do not do club activity than those who do use beauty information more actively, and that for a factor of passive use of beauty information, female students than male students, middle school students than high school students, students who do not have their girl or boy friend than those who do, and students who do club activity than those who do not use beauty information more passively. Third, as a result of comparing beauty management behavior depending on adolescents' characteristics, for the overall beauty management behavior, skin care was analyzed highest. Based on these findings, we are to obtain basic data which is helpful to find out what differences the use of media and beauty information and beauty management behavior has depending on adolescents' characteristics.