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The purpose of this study is to investigate Korean idiomatic expressions with an animal name and to suggest the educational measures of Korean idiomatic expressions for the foreign learners of Korean language. After reviewing the previous studies on this subject we, first, classify the idioms into 4 types based on the two unique criteria, namely the degree of an idiomatic usuage and of the understanding the meaning of the idiom’s constituents. We also propose two types of educational measures-meaning-related and meaning-inferred educational measures and apply them to teach the idioms to the foreign students at Youngsan University. The results of this experiment say that the proposal gives us a more desirable outcome than the previous one. Hopefully, this study helps to understand and recognize the meaning of an idiom and will be expected to be referred to teach the Korean language and Korean culture, too.