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The purpose of the study is to analyse Korean learners’ N-gram use between intermediate and advanced English learners. Since the use of N-gram is considered to be one of the key elements to present learners’ fluent language use, it is often discussed to judge language normality. In particular, the study is focused on different or similar use of N-gram in terms of learners’ level of language use. To this end, two kinds of Korean learner corpora (intermediate vs. advanced) are used to investigate a particular pattern from the two perspectives (grammatical and functional) and compare it with that of native learner corpus (LOCNESS). The results of study show that first, both Korean learners overuse a simplified grammatical pattern (NP+Verb: we should think about). This pattern is also distinctive between intermediate and advanced learners. Second, from the functional viewpoint, they have different patterns in the categories of Stance and Referential comparing to those of native learners.