Authors analysed 396 patients with foreign bodies in the esophagus, air passage, external auditory canals, nasal cavities, oral cavity and pharynx which were encountered in the department of Otoloaryngology, Busan Baik Hospital from June 1979 to Oct. 1987 was presented. 1) Distribution of location was 228 cases(56.6%) in the esophagus, 62 cases(15.7%) in the external auditory canals, 54 cases(13.6%) in the oral cavity and pharynx, 34 cases(8.6%) in the air passages and 18 cases(4.5%) in the nasal cavities. 2) Coin was the most frequent foreign body in the esophagus(55.7%). Bean and peanut was the most frequent foreign body in the air passage(26.5%). In the external auditory canal, insect(77.4%), in the nasal cavity, bean(55.6%), and in the oral cavity and pharynx, fish bone(90.7%), the most frequent foreign bodies. 3) In the age of incidence, most of the patients of foreign body in the esophagus, air passage and nasal cavites were children under the age of five, but in the oral cavity and pharynx, were over 20 years, age. 4) In sex distribution, males were prevalent. 5) In air passage, bronchial foreign body was more common and foreign bodies in the oral cavity and pharynx were mostly at the vallecula.