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Suprasementals or suprasemental features such as stress, pitch, intonation and pause play an important role in spoken communication. This study assumes that the differences in suprasementals between English and Korean may interfere with the Korean EFL learners in proper understanding of English. Thus, the object of this study is to show differences in pause between English and Korean by analyzing both inter-sentential and intra-sentential pauses. For the purpose, two groups of data were selected: one, the dialogues and speeches from TOEIC test and the other, those from TOPIK test. The results show that pause in Korean is relatively longer than in English in both inter- and intra-sentential levels, and pause is not exactly consistent with the syntactic and semantic units in both languages