1. A method for managing lists using multi-touch, comprising: detecting a multi-touch on a list displayed on a touch screen; identifying a gesture generated by the multi-touch; determining whether a selection area for altering a structure of the list is a particular portion of the list or the entire list, according to a comparison between a touch input time period for which the multi-touch is maintained following the detection of the multi-touch until the identification of the gesture and a preset activation time period; and displaying an altered structure of the list by altering the structure of the determined selection area of the list according to the gesture.