Provided are a method and an apparatus for allocating a wireless resource in a wireless communication system including a relay station. A sub-channelization parameter for a relay zone is transmitted and a wireless resource is allocated to a relay station on the basis of the sub-channelization parameter. The relay zone is the zone for transmitting a signal from a base station to the relay station or receiving the signal from the relay station within a frame and the wireless resource allocated in the relay station is the remaining physical resource units (PRUs) except the PRUs allocated in a distributed resource unit (DRU).