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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the interaction between the expressions of motion events and the notion of telicity in Korean. The notion of telicity refers to the property of presenting the action or event as complete. In this paper the telicity in the motion events is divided into two types: speaker telicity and event telicity. The followings are discussed in this paper. First, what is referred to as speaker telicity is clearly shown in the use of the verb ‘ota(come)’ which implies the completion of the motion events. That is, the verb ‘ota’ is typically used in the environment where the motion towards the speaker is completed, while the verb ‘gata(go)’ does not imply the situation where the motion away from the speaker is completed, which also influences the alternation or choice of ‘ota’ or ‘gata’. Second, it is argued that the choice of complement case markers ‘-ey’ or ‘-lul’ is associated with the event telicity. The case marker ‘-ey’ with the complements shows the greater probability of event telicity than the marker ‘-lul’. Third, it is claimed that the serial verb constructions with the verbs of movement show the greater probability of event telicity than the single verb constructions with only the manner component