Mobile terminal and method of controlling the mobile terminal

Provided is a mobile terminal including a display unit on which multiple divisional screen regions are output, and a controller that, when receiving an input for a division mode in which the display unit is divided into the multiple screen regions, generates a list region including an icon corresponding to an application and divides the displaying unit into a first and second screen regions with the list region in between, in which when a pair icon including a first icon corresponding to a first application and a second icon corresponding to a second application is selected from the list region, the controller executes the first and second applications on one of the first and second screen regions according to positions of the first and second icons arranged on the pair icon, respectively.