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The purpose of this study investigate the effect of local public servant’s public conflict situation recognition on their job stress by applying situational theory, one of public relations and communication science focusing on the location conflict of power plant in Samcheok City, Kangwon Province. The results of this study are as follows. First, it shows that the effect of three situational variables(problem recognition, constraint recognition, involvement recognition) on job stress is a obvious difference in accordance with the high or low group of situation recognition about public conflict. Second, it shows that the effect of situation variables about public conflict on job stress is a clear difference between the three variables, that is, problem recognition, involvement recognition appears to be high in the order of constraint recognition. The study is meaningful as it not only helps to expand theoretical discussion about public conflict of local community from public relations and communication studies but also casts practical implication in selecting a method for successful management of public conflict and designing public servant’s job stress coping strategies in local governments experiencing public conflict.