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The purpose of this paper is to examine translation strategies in translating English metaphoric expressions into Korean by focusing on the influential elements which have much to do with deciding translation strategies. The metaphoric expression is considered as a difficult item in cross-cultural translation because target text readers are unable to understand metaphoric expressions as they do not share knowledge and experience of the exotic cultural elements in the original text. Accordingly the translator has to choose the appropriate strategy to help the target text readers to understand cultural elements and share the equivalent connotations. This paper has indicated that English metaphoric expressions related to the body parts are translated into Korean by three strategies, that is, metaphoric expression-to-metaphoric expression, substitution of equivalent metaphoric expression and paraphrase, which are decided by considering the sameness of conceptual metaphor, degree of conventionalization, and metaphorical transparency.