Disclosed herein is a switched reluctance motor in which an outer rotor provided with a plurality of salient poles protruded at equidistance along an inner peripheral surface thereof; and a stator provided in the outer rotor, provided with a plurality of stator cores including main salient poles protruded toward the salient poles of the outer rotor and including coils wound therearound and auxiliary salient poles positioned at both sides of the main salient poles, and having phase windings in which the coils are wound around the main salient poles are provided, a magnetic flux is bisected in the main salient pole and flows into the auxiliary salient poles of adjacent phase windings, such that a short magnetic flux route is implemented, thereby making it possible to reduce core loss, and a magnet is also provided, thereby making it possible to improve torque characteristics.