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This paper aims to clarify the semantic-formal characteristics of the paradigmatic blends and to distinguish the blends from the abbreviation in present-day Korean. In the semantic-formal aspects blends is different from the clipped word and initialism. Blends have no the original form, blend’s meaning is not the same as the compositional meaning of source words. But the clipped word and initialism have the original forms and the former has the same meaning as the latter. Despite these differences between blends and clipped word/initialism, the comparative object of Korean blends must be not clipped word/initialism but abbreviation. Because there are the many different types of abbreviations that don’t belong to clipped word/initialism in present-day Korean. Accordingly clipped word/initialism is only the subtype of abbreviation. This paper argues that the concept of syntagmatic blends which is suggested in 노명희(2010) has not the logical basis in present-day Korean Grammar. A so-called syntagmatic blends have the original form and the same meaning as the original form as if abbreviation does. In English blends is formed of the compounding of the larger units than letter but abbreviation is made of the combination of letter units. Because these two of English is different in the formal aspects, the concept of syntagmatic blend can be established in English grammar. But in Korean all of blends and abbreviation are made of compounding of syllables or larger units than syllables. In Korean these two are not distinct in formal aspect. Accordingly concept like a so-called syntagmatic blends which is suggested in 노명희(2010) must be discard. And this paper insist that the real status of so-called syntagmatic blend is a subtype of abbreviation in present-day Korean.