Now in Korea, many households are facing with economic crisis. The study based on the premise that household economic status could keep as stable as before economic crisis depending on the coping behavior of housewives as a manager of household. The purpose of this study was to find the coping behavior patterns with economic crisis of housewives, and to examine the socio-demo-economic factors which influence the coping behavior with economic crisis of housewives. Major findings were as follows; (1) The principal two patterns of coping with economic crisis were active coping behavior and passive coping behavior. (2) The most frequently used coping behavior pattern was passive coping behavior. (3) The patterns of coping with economic crisis were influenced by the socio-demo-economic factors.