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This study aims at exploring the grammaticality recognition of the L2 learners of Korean on the transitive locative structures. Argument alignment and locative alternation have been postulated as two linguistic contexts to design 12 locative verb sentences. 20 Korean native speakers(NKs) and 40 L1 Chinese learners of Korean(CKs) participated in the study. Research questions of the study are as below: RQ 1. Do CKs show different grammaticality judgments on locative structures compared to NKs do in terms of argument alignment and locative alternation? RQ 2. Is there L2 variation of language proficiency in the grammaticality judgments of the CK high group and that of CK low group? The results regarding RQ 1 showed that CKs exhibited significantly lower grammaticality judgment than NKs did regardless of the linguistic contexts. This implies that further attention on teaching of locative structures needs to be provided to the L2 learners. For RQ 2, CK low group showed significantly low grammaticality judgment on the sentences in unmarked contexts such as typical argument alignment structures and alternation structures. However, the grammaticality judgment of CK low and high groups were not consistant in non-alternation structures when they were compared to that in the other marked context, non-typical argument alignment structures. It implies that markedness hypothesis regarding typicalness of argument alignment in L2 acquisition is valid but not with locative alternation.