The culture of the nail art came to Korea through the frequent exchanges and it is developed continuously with adjustment to the Korean culture and change to the Korean style. The value of the nail art as plastic arts which is able to bring the graphical senses is the results of the various designs developed and proposed by the nail specialists. But it is difficult to accept that studies on the nail art of the plastic arts as one of the expressional arts are actively done. Thus, studies on the nail art are necessarily needed in order to highlight the value of the plastic arts. It is very important to find the Korean unique identities at the nail art under the global trend by the export of the Korean nail art culture. From this view point, the nail art design should be studied and proposed with the motive of Korean patterns. Thus, the nail art design is studied with the motive of Korea patterns which are recognized as not only the daily life's arts but also it's art values. The nail art design is studied by modernization of the tradition with pre studies on nail art and Korean traditional patterns, and the cloud pattern, lotus pattern and butterfly pattern are accepted for this study. First, the rhythm sense is derived by the study on the nail art with the motive of the cloud pattern which was well accepted as the sole background motive. Second, the design emphasizing the motive of lotus pattern is derived. Third, the movement sense of the butterfly as a symbol of love and long life is expressed. Finally, the nail art design as plastic arts is proposed through the applied arts. In other words, it can be well recognized that the art value is founded by the study on the nail art and the Korean style beauty is derived from the nail art design. This study couldn't cover all scope of the Korean patterns due to the large spectrum and so only the cloud pattern, lotus pattern and butterfly pattern are selected as motive based on the pre studies. In order to establish the identities of the Korean nail art, the Korean motives should be verified as the world unique style by studies on the selected Korean motives. The researcher hopes the areas not handled in this study are touched in coming studies and this study contributes to the basic data for the further studies.