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The aim of this paper is to reanalyze the structure of locative inversion construction in English and Korean and to suggest that the locative inversion in Korean has the same derivation as that of English in the syntax, following Yim(2004). Specially considering the locative inversion construction with unergative verbs and unaccusative verbs, we will argue that the former does not allow locative inversion at all and locative inversion in Korean is derived in the same way as an English counterpart. To analyze the structure of locative inversion, this paper will adopt the structure of SpecvP, which is the position in which either the external argument of an unergative or any complement of an unaccusative appears, as suggested by Bowers(2002). It will be shown that the PP moves to SpecvP and in turn to SpecTP in locative inversion in English and Korean, driven by the EPP-features on v and T.