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This paper re-examines Jo (2013)'s phrasal movement approach to predicate contrastive topic constructions in Korean and applies his analysis to predicative copular constructions with regard to forming predicate contrastive topic. Jo (2013) proposed a unified analysis of two kinds of predicate contrastive topic constructions, so-called Ha- and R-constructions, and claimed that the two constructions arise as a result of morphophonological variation at the PF/Morphological component via selective PF-deletion process in the lower copy of the moved constituent. By extending his analysis to predicative copular constructions, this paper strongly confirms the validity of his analysis and claim. The analysis of the affix ‘-ki' as a rescue affix along with the dummy verb ‘-ha' is further supported by its morphological distribution in predicative copular constructions. Also the phrasal movement approach to predicative copular constructions makes it viable to assume that the copula is a syntactic head selecting a Small Clause.