The purpose of this study is to explore the stressors experienced by domestic school principals and their coping strategies with it. To that end, interview data collected and used in previous studies were re-analyzed according to the purpose of this study. The Following are the major findings of this study. First, the stressors for domestic school principals turned out to be five main items. First of all, in terms of position, isolation, burden of final decision, and stress caused by perception related to authority weakness were observed, and stress caused by role conflict at the individual level or health issue was also found. In addition, there was also stress caused by the characteristics of the domestic school organization. In addition, it was found that the school principal was experiencing stress in maintaining relationships with teachers and people outside the school. Lastly, the stress experienced in the process of transforming the existing system due to exogenous shock. Second, it was found that domestic school principal’s coping strategies was classified into passive coping and active coping according to their attitudes. First, the principal responded passively by accepting it internally when there was no high expectation that he or she could adapt to a given situation or improve the behavior of others. Next, the principal showed that he or she escaped stress through available institutional devices. In addition, the principal showed signs of coping with stress by emphasizing communication with unit school members or using collective intelligence in important decisions. Based on these analysis results, the discussion on school principal’s stress was presented and implications for subsequent support planning were suggested.