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This purpose of this study was to examine social awareness and values of family camping culture in an effort to spread sound leisure consciousness and vitalize family camping by raising positive awareness of camping as a sound leisure culture and of family camping. The subjects in this study were 10 members of two different camping clubs, who went camping with their families five times or more a year. They were selected in consideration of gender, age and career. After participant observation and in-depth interviews were conducted, the following findings were given: First, the goal of family camping had something to do with self- ealization. The participants replied that they went camping with their families to pursue self-realization and satisfy their other needs at the same time. In Maslow's need theory, needs for self-realization are the highest level of needs. Many of the camping participants set their sight on higher-level needs such as self-satisfaction, a sense of superiority or self-realization rather than on lower-level ones such as economic goal, service or interpersonal relationship. Second, the majority of the participants replied family camping served to bolster social adjustability. Specifically, family camping was considered to have a positive impact on the physical, psychological and environmental aspects of social adjustability. Third, in relation to social satisfaction with the popularization of camping, it was possible for camping to be popularized, yet there were some limits to that at the same time. Spending leisure time with family is one of integral factors for a family community as a way to share pleasure, but there was still room for improvement in terms of facilities, environments and programs.