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This study investigated the effects of female university students’ appearance interest and satisfaction on perception of obesity and management and obesity stress targeting 211 female university students who are 20 to 29 years old and live in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do from Jun. 10th, to 30th, 2014. In the results in the study, there are most persons in their 20s who think that they get fat and should be slimmer and they are under stress due to obesity as body types have found to get fat(39.8%) and stress due to obesity has done to be yes(43.6%). It has found that appearance interest has the positive effect on perception of obesity and management and appearance satisfaction has the negative effect on perception of obesity and management. It is thought that various programs which can improve appearance satisfaction should be developed and approaches which consider stress due to obesity, that is, even psychological parts, not thinking that it is just the physical problem in these results of the study. However, there could be problems in representativeness of the sample in this study because partial female university students were selected as the subjects and it has its limits to grasp differences between objective and subjective body types. Therefore, more systematic studies should be done targeting female university students in various areas in next studies.