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The purpose of this study is to examine the characteristics of the cultural interactions that happen in sea-port cities (Incheon and Busan) through the use of languages in signboard notations. For this purpose, in this study, the researchers selected the tourist spots, the university streets, the new town and the old town in Busan and Incheon to perform comparative analysis of the signboard notations in those four areas, so that the cultural hybridity and dynamic of language activities in sea-port cities. As for the first stage of the study, the signboard notations in the two cities were comparatively analyzed in order to identify the linguistic orientations of such languages in the four target areas. The result of the analysis showed that, in three of the target areas (the tourist spots, the university street, and the new town,) the linguistic orientations were focused on Korean and Western languages, while the linguistic orientation in the old town was focused on Korean. Next, to ensure precision in the characteristics of the signboard notations in the two sea-port cities, statistic analysis was conducted. The result of the analysis showed that the two cities did not show any differences in the patterns of the linguistic outputs in signboard notations. However, the outputs in two languages, Korean and Western languages, significantly outnumbered other those in other languages. Also, the output patterns of the two languages were similar in the tourist spots, the university streets, and the old town, while they differed in their new town areas. In the third stage of the study, the researchers examined the new town area of Incheon, which showed a different language output pattern from other areas of the two cities. That is, with a focus on the two dual notation languages identified in Songdo-dong, Incheon, the practices of ‘sound notation,’ ‘meaning notation,’ and ‘mixed- notations’ were comparatively analyzed. The results showed that the two dual notation languages from Songdo-dong were mainly composed of sound notations.