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A Comparative study of Performance between Social enterprise and Community Business Yoon, Byung-Gwon․Lee, Jae-Jung This study attempts to analyzes social enterprise and community business and find out whether there is any difference in the performance and sustainability of these two types of social economic organizations. We investigated 96 social enterprises and 99 community business around the city of Busan Metropolitan area. The results of this research project showed that social enterprise outperformed all the three area of performance, that is, economic performance, social performance, and sustainability. We collected data of theses two organization by using questionnaires, interview with social worker. Then, empirically analyzed those data to test hypotheses. All the results are statistically significant and we come to following conclusion. We conclude that there might be many reasons for these results. Among them we summarize those into two major reasons. First of all, most social enterprise located in urban area while community business are in the area of rural area. That means, the outputs of social enterprise are nearer to market and easily exposed to customers while the product and service of community business mostly stay away from market and sold by people usually involved in the business or their friends. Secondly, most managers working for the social enterprise are citizens of Busan metropolitan city and they seem to be business-minded and market-oriented people compare to the managers of community business. These two facts are the reasons of the difference. However, these interpretation must be empirically investigated to be accepted. Therefore, future research will be necessary to justify the conclusion.