A method for providing a semantic context according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include: extracting at least one of address information and surrounding address information of the address information on the basis of a user's location; reading a social relationship list which is a list of people having a social relationship with a user; extracting information associated with people on the read social relationship list in a region corresponding to at least one of the extracted address information and the extracted surrounding address information; and providing the extracted information to the user.