Korean modern houses should admit modern requirement, Korean climate and way of living. These elements should be expressed through not only plan but also form and design.The aim of this thesis is to understand the expression tendency of the traditional design elements in idyllic houses.For this purpose, I investigated following things : 1) The culture and social theory about the tradition and the design elements. 2) The concept of Korean traditional design elements and factors as the design elements sources. 3) The methods of Korean traditional design elements expressed in idyllic houses. As a result, the methods of traditional reception can be classified as copying, eclecticism and abstraction.