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The purpose of this study is to compare the differences of online and offline review for evaluating service quality of Expo. More specifically, this study was conducted to answer a research question: what differences do online and offline review have in terms of review valence(positive, neutral and negative), the length of review, mentioned service quality? For online review, data were collected from official webpage of Suncheon Bay Garden Expo 2013 and for offline review, survey was conducted with the visitors of Suncheon Bay Garden Expo 2013. NViVO8, a program for content analysis was used for comparative analysis. As main results, first, online review had more negative content than offline review. Second, the average length of online review is longer than offline one. Lastly, a variety of differences were founded in terms of the evaluation of service quality. Based on results, several theoretical and practical implications were discussed.