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There are two kinds of structural relationships between V1 and V2 in Korean SVCs. One has a head-adjunction structure, and the other has a head-complementation structure. In dependent construction, V1 either changes the selectional restrictions of V2, or plays a role of an argument for V2, which motivates the complement status of V2. In coordinate construction, on the other hand, no such dependence is attested. The distinction between the coordinate construction and the dependent construction is identified by SE-insertion test, which has been used to set SVCs apart from the auxiliary verb construction. Contrary to the common assumption, dependent construction and the auxiliary verb construction are grouped together, given the parallel complement-head relationship between V1 and V2.