Disclosed herein are a system for managing network traffic by using monitoring and filtering policies, including: a network traffic managing device to manage network traffic by (i) creating a monitoring policy and a filtering policy and (ii) transmitting the created monitoring policy and the created filtering policy to a user terminal device; and a traffic control device to detect packets generated in one or more applications of the user terminal device, according to the one or more applications or one or more destination addresses based on the monitoring policy received from the network traffic managing device, create and transmit traffic statistical information on the detected packets to the network traffic managing device, and filter the packets according to the filtering policy received from the network traffic managing device at a kernel area of the user terminal device.