Patients with chronic liver disease have a high risk to malnutrition. Proper nutrition should be provided through a proper nutritional assessment. Enteral nutrition is recommended as a nutritional supplement because it maintains the intestinal mucosa, reduces infectious complications, is less costly than parenteral nutrition, and is more physiological to use intestine. The purpose of this review is to define the nutritional deficiencies of patients with liver disease and to show the indications for enteral nutrition and to validate the efficacy of enteral nutrition. According to the various guidelines and researches, enteral nutrition is used as a solution to the nutritional problems caused by patients with liver disease. The optimal enteral formula will be selected on the nutritional problems. It is expected that the enteral nutrition will reduce especially postoperative complications, intraperitoneal complications, pneumonia, and wound infection. The enteral nutrition for patients with chronic liver disease should be actively implemented.