A recording medium for electrophotographic applications includes a base layer and an outermost coating layer containing a porous adsorptive material. According to the present general inventive concept, since a porous adsorptive material is contained in an outermost coating layer of the recording medium, volatile hazardous material generated from toner during a printing operation can be directly adsorbed on the recording medium to efficiently decrease or remove an occurrence of volatile hazardous material, so that a separate filter or apparatus to remove the volatile hazardous material is not needed and thus economical effects can be obtained.