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In recent years, emotional labour is emerging as an important factor for the service encounter employees. The purposes of this study are 1) to investigate the relationship between customer verbal aggression and emotional labour, surface acting and deep acting, 2) to examine the effect on emotional exhaustion of customer verbal aggression and emotional labour, surface acting and deep acting, 3) to identify the relationship between emotional exhaustion and counterproductive work behavior, and finally 4) to identify moderating effects of tenure on the relationship between customer verbal aggression and employees’ emotional labour and emotional exhaustion. For the empirical test, the data of the study were collected from service encounter employees working in luxury hotels in Seoul. The findings of the study showed that 1) customer verbal aggression have positive effects on surface acting and emotional exhaustion, but no effect on deep acting, 2) customer verbal aggression and surface acting increased emotional exhaustion, but deep acting has a negative effect on emotional exhaustion, 3) emotional exhaustion has a signigicant impact on counterproductive work behaviour, and last, 4) tenure as moderating effect showed the relationship between the customer verbal aggression and surface acting.