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The purpose of this paper is to investigate some aspects of the bidirectional correspondences of delexical verb constructions in English and Korean. The followings are discussed in this paper. First, the Korean equivalents of the delexical verb constructions in English account for about 53% of tokens in all the constructions. The important semantic features such as onceness in English delexical verb constructions are not shown in the Korean dictionary correspondences. Second, English equivalents of Korean delexical constructions represent about 20% of tokens in all the constructions. The head nouns combined with the verb ‘-hada’ Korean delexical constructions are dynamic and non-substantial. The dynamic meanings of the head nouns are reflected in the English delexical verb correspondences, while the non-substantial property of the nouns is not shown in the correspondences.