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This study aims a analyze the process on the work-life balance was studied through grounded theory analysis for employees engaged in the tourism industry. For this, it interviewed a total of 20 hotel workers, casino workers, and restaurant workers and through open coding, the major concepts of work-life balance were ultimately drawn out into 163 concepts, 42 subcategories, and 16 categories. Also, a paradigm model that is the analytical frame of axial coding was applied and each category that was drawn from the data was structuralized using central phenomena, causal factors, contextual factors, moderating factors, interaction strategies, and results and their connecting relationships were analyzed. As a result, a paradigm model of work-life balance was presented and based on the paradigm model, attributes and dimensions of each category were classified. Finally, through the derivation and elaboration of the core categories, the core category for work-life balance in this study was summarized as 'Efforts to realize each goal based on the balance of family life'. An understanding of work-life balance and efforts to balance work-life through work-family balance, work-leisure balance, and work-growth balance were studied. Through this study, the purpose of this study is to contribute to the understanding of the practical support system of employees, and through this, the purpose of presenting data so that the tourism industry can guide the work-life balance support system in a desirable direction.