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The analyses of focus licensing in Korean have long been controversial since focus markers, in most cases, happen to be exactly the same forms as canonical Case markers even with the same kinds of morphological variants. In this paper I will explore from a minimalist perspective in what aspects focus licensing is differentiated from Case licensing, how the surface-semantic effect of focus is properly derived, and what makes Case/focus markers share the same morphological forms, based on the data drawn from the part-whole or inalienable possession constructions in Korean.