Trophic groups and functional guilds were studied of soil nematodes from the soils of two abandoned mines in Ilkwang and Gunbuk, South Korea to compare nematode communities between the heavy metal contaminated soil and the nonheavy metal contaminated soil. No obvious correlation was found between the level of heavy metal and the total number of nematodes statistically. However the overall densities of bacterial, hyphal, omnivorous and predatory nematodes from the non-heavy metal contaminated soil was higher than those from the heavy metal contaminated soil. Also the densities of c-p 2, c-p 3, c-p 4 and c-p 5 nematodes were higher from the non-heavy metal contaminated soil than those from the heavy metal contaminated soil. MI, MI 2-5 and ΣMI 2-5 were higher, but there were no significant differences.