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Many researchers have argued that some kind of intervention constraint applies for the Korean NPI and the licensing negation at LF. Some even argued that this intervention constraint actually applies at S-structure. I find the intervention constraint does work at LF, but it alone cannot adequately explain some data. This paper shows that some data, not previously taken care of, can be explained away if we introduce the concepts of two different foci: negation target focus and simple focus, and hypothesize the location of NPI to be on Spec/NegP.