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Liu, Tingting. 2014. A Corpus Based Study on the relationship between Korean and Chinese classifiers and numerals with focus on ‘Han’ and ‘Yi’. Journal of Linguistic Studies 19(1), 85-105. The purpose of present paper is to analyze and compare the relationships between classifiers and numerals in Korean and Chinese. There are a great number of classifiers in both of two languages and they take an important role in the conversations. Studying on them is very necessary, and the contrastive study is also important. Since comparing the classifiers uses of two languages will be very helpful for Chinese student understanding and studying Korean language. The relationship between classifiers and nouns, and classifiers and numerals are two tasks for studying the uses of classifiers. This paper focuses on the latter. We take ‘Han’ and ‘Yi’ as the samples and we find that: ‘Han’ can signify ‘quantity’, ‘individual’, ‘minimum number’, and ‘respectively’, while ‘Yi’ can mean ‘quantity’, ‘individual’, ‘minimum number’, ‘respectively’, ‘transient behavior’, ‘identical’, ‘entirety’, and ‘the other one’. In this paper, the differences of classifiers and numerals relationships between Korean and Chinese are systematically analyzed which is based on the 21 century Sejong corpus and Chinese CCL corpus. (Yonsei Univerisity)