Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel quinoline compound and a use thereof and to a novel quinoline compound exhibiting CYP4A inhibition activity and a use thereof for preventing, alleviating, treating a metabolic disease. The compound disclosed in the present invention has a remarkable effect of inhibiting CYP4A and exhibits the activities of promoting the absorption of glucose into hepatocytes, inhibiting fat accumulation in hepatocytes, suppressing endoplasmic reticulum-induced reactive oxygen species, and treating steatohepatitis, and thus can be very advantageously used for developing therapeutics for metabolic diseases such as diabetes mellitus and fatty liver.