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This study aims at exploring self-repairs and retrospective self-repairs of L2 Korean speakers. 10 of L2 Korean speakers performed two types of tasks which were an academic presentation and a retrospective interview on their presentation. Self repairs of L2 Korean speakers were compared with those of another 10 Koran native speakers. The current study sub-categorized self-repairs into simple repair, error repair, and checking up. Retrospective self-repairs were sub-categorized into repair on discourse structure, information repair, appropriacy repair, error repair, rephrasing, and repair on checking up. We examined whether two groups of participants had used the self-repairs in a different manners and strategies. We have found that the types and frequencies of the self-repairs showed a similar pattern among both groups; however the examples of self repairs of L2 speakers often failed to accomplish their initial intention of self-repair and resulted in another type of errors.