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This paper explores the co-relations and differences in English and Korean relative clauses from the Role and Reference Grammar[RRG] perspective. The relatives in two languages are divided into gap-based(or syntax-based) and characterization-based(or semantic and pragmatics-based) relatives. In this paper the followings are discussed. First, the gap-based relatives in English are so called relative clauses, while the characterization-based relatives are non-restrictive relatives. Second, the restrictive relative clauses in English serve to identify the intersection of sets for relative clauses and head nouns, and so the type of the nexus is regarded as the NP subordination. On the other hand, nonrestricitve relatives in English are argued to take the nexus of cosubordination. In Korean, however, the gap-based relatives are argued to be externally headed relative clauses, while characterization-based relatives are argued to be internally headed relative clauses and gapless relatives. The type of the nexus in Korean externally headed relatives is classed as the subordination, which provide characterization for the antecedent. On the other hand, the type of the nexus for internally headed relatives and gapless relatives could be the cosubordination. (Pusan National University)