Home > Think English > Readers' Opinion dictionary by Andrew Park, Yeoul Elementary School Countries have their own representative animals. For example, the U.S. has the bald eagle, China has the giant panda, and Australia has the kangaroo and the koala. In the same, South Korea has its own symbolic animals: the tiger and the magpie. Thus, I want to explain about their meanings and how they described by Koreans. First, I will explain the meaning of the magpie and the tiger.