This study aimed to compare Consumer Empowerment Index(CEI) between Korean and Chinese young adult consumers. Consumer empowerment index is constructed with three sub-pillars: consumer knowledge, consumer skills, and consumer engagement. The subjects of this study were 640 young consumers who are 19 to 30 years old. Data were collected by online survey. Theresults are as follows. First, Korean young consumers have more consumer knowledge than Chinese consumers, while Chinese young consumers have higher propensity of consumer engagement. Consumer knowledge related to the rule for insurance cooling-off period and guaranteed period was low for both countries. It means that consumer education should be allocated to these issues. Consumer skills were the highest among three sub-pillars for both countries. Chinese young consumers’ consumer engagement was higher than Korean young consumers. It means that Chinese young consumers have more positive attitude of conducting their role as a consumer and perform the role more actively. Second, according to socio-demographic variables, Korean young consumers who had higher education have more consumer knowledge, engagement propensity and CEI. Korean students had higher CEI than who are not white-collar workers. There was also statistical difference according to father’s education level. Chinese consumers in their early20s had more consumer skills, and respondents who have higher education level had higher three sub-pillars and CEI. Also, there was statistical differences according to father’s education level for consumer knowledge pillar and CEI and according to mother’s education level for consumer engagement pillar and CEI. Third, low consumer knowledge group of Korean tended to have less propensity of consumer engagement than middle and high consumer knowledge group To improve consumer engagement level, more consumer education for low consumer knowledge group should be allocated. On the other hand, there is moderate effect of education level for Chinese consumers. Consumer engagement propensity was significantly different according to consumer knowledge only for low-level education group. Consumer engagement was lower for high consumer knowledge group than middle consumer knowledge group. Therefore, to improve consumer engagement level, consumer education to force to make proactive attitude should be carried out in parallel with consumer knowledge education.