The present disclosure relates to a system and communication technique of fusing a 5G communication system supporting higher data transmission rate than a 4G system with an IoT technology. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety related service, or the like). According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for paging using beamforming by a base station in a wireless communication system may include: determining a paging option for a terminal based on at least one of whether a cell is in a dormant mode, information on a number of terminals within the cell, or traffic load information of the cell, notifying the terminal of information on the determined paging option, and performing a paging operation on the terminal based on the determined paging option.