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This study intends to analyze the networks of community-based small businesses related to social economy in the field of culture and tourism. For this purpose, this study adopts in-depth interviews focused on representatives or executives of seven community-based social enterprises in Chuncheon city. The main result of this study shows that the networks of community-based social enterprises related to culture and tourism are temporal, limited, and competitive each other, and restricted to the stakeholders within study area. However, most survey participants hope to build the strong networks with the community-based social enterprise out of the Kangwon province, related university and central and local governments. This study suggests the virtuous circulation of community-based social enterprises for their sustainable management, and this may be able to contribute to the development of sustainable community-based economy, because community-based social enterprises are based on the local economy and sociocultural sustainability, one of the main factors of sustainable development.