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The purpose of this study is to discuss Korean translations of English passives and to provide functional explanations for each type of them. We analyze 160 passives from Rowling's (1998) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Meyer's (2007) Twilight and their Korean versions. The English passives are shown to be translated into Korean passives (19.4%), actives (68.7%) and paraphrastical expressions (11.9%). Korean actives are classified into 5 subtypes: intransitives (49.1%), transitives (40.0%), adjectives (5.5%), nouns (4.5%), and adverbs (0.9%). This study accounts for the subtypes in terms of functional concepts such as topicality, agentitivity, animacy, stativity, and lexicalization.