Provided are a backlight unit and a display apparatus including the same. The backlight unit includes: a light guide plate configured to diffuse and transmit light that is incident on the light guide plate; and a white light emitting member configured to convert incident light transmitted by the light guide plate to white light having a color temperature that is adjusted according to a degree of conversion of the incident light into light of a specific color based on application of an electrical signal to the white light emitting member, and to emit the white light.