The Korea Local Administration Review

The purpose of the study was aimed at analyzing the effects of volunteers’community service activities on their formation and accumulation of socialcapital, focusing on 207 volunteers in A community service center in Seoulmetropolitan area. Main research method was self-reporting survey, consistingof the respondents’ demographic information, their volunteer activities, andsocial capital measurement. Main findings of the study were as follow: First,volunteers who were women, old ageing, married, and having high schooldegree earners participated more actively in the frequencies and types ofvolunteer activities than others. Also, they were engaged in volunteering withself-motivation and service-centered mind. In term of the formation of socialcapital, the interests and positive attitude toward the volunteering activitieshave highly impacted the volunteers’ trust, networking, and social norms. It wasexpected that the active engagement in volunteering activities had affected theformation and accumulation of social capital in community-based society.