The purpose of this study was to consider the consciousness of health and hygiene in the Enlightening Period with the conflict between traditional thoughts and the western thoughts. This analycial study focused on the issues of health and hygiene in the newspapers and academic journals in those days. The results of this study was summarized as follows; First, exercises for the physical health were inforced by the children's education of physique at home. The most of education was in the education of physique at home. The education of physique was emphasized to raise healthy body which is some parts of the children's education. An importance of exercise was suggested as the content of an education of physique. Second, an importance and a necessity of nutrition were started for the consciousness of physical health, and the content was insufficiency and basic knowledge. For example, the nutrition concept was defined and the nutrition components were introduced as basic contents. Chul-Su Kim emphasized the nutrition compontents for the children's health in "the law of home education". He detailed into the sense of nutrition, kinds, methods, and the princeples in systematically. He suggested the 10 principles of nutrition and the element of nutrition applied on physical exercises. Third, the consciousness of hygiene for health people was slatted from the emphasis of enlightenment activities for the cleanliness of life. To foster health body, the sanitary improvement activities were accomplished via a leading article at newspaper. The concept of hygiene, the sense of nutrition, and the hygienics were introduced at the academic journals. Dond-Choi Lee et al, criticizexl the personal health via healthy life highly effects on healthy society and the rich and powerful nation which means that for healthy people, the primary convent of which was mainly about the origin of hygiene. 10 rules of hygiene was introduced in brief content construct and implication as the method of hygiene, Exercise was emphasized for healthy body as the element of hygiene. Especilly, Kyu-Young Lee criticized that it was very meanignful informatin in terms of "muscle fatigue" at that time.