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Disclosed are a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating a respiratory disease, and health functional food, a food composition, and a quasi-drug composition for preventing and ameliorating a respiratory disease, each including, as active ingredients, a Lactobacillus plantarum KC3 strain and a Leonurus japonicus extract. The composition including the Lactobacillus plantarum KC3 strain (Accession No: KCTC13375BP) and the Leonurus japonicus extract as active ingredients according to an aspect has a defense effect against respiratory damage caused by air pollutants such as fine dust and can inhibit expression of IL-17A, TNF-α, and CXCL-1, thereby being able to effectively treat or prevent a respiratory disease including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In addition, the effect of the active ingredient combination above results in a synergistic inhibition or treatment effect on bronchial inflammation by the administration compared to the existing therapeutic effect of a respiratory inflammatory disease of each of the Leonurus japonicus extract and the lactic acid bacteria KC3. Thus, the present disclosure can be usefully utilized for the prevention or treatment of a respiratory disease.

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