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This paper attempts to study Korean college students' knowledge of the English light verb+noun collocation. The subjects were 51 college students in Pusan, Korea. Three English light verbs(give, have, make) were selected and tested. The results are as follows. First. there was a somewhat weak positive correlation (r=.481, p<.01) between college students' general English knowledge and English light verb+noun collocation knowledge. Second, The average score was 57.61% and the ratio of correct answer was in the order of have(70.03%), make(56.86%) and give(45.94%). Third, There was a big difference between the scores according to nouns which light verbs combine with. The subjects were 90.20% correct in the have a sleep, while they are only 25.49% correct in the give a boost collocation. Fourth, The subjects' answers were not in accordance with the BNC frequency. For example, they are only 35.29% correct in the collocation of make a payment even though it is frequently found in BNC. These results show that EFL learners need to study collocation through corpus, not just memorizing individual words without knowing how words are used with some other words