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Multimedia corpus enables researchers to observe both spoken sentence materials and the nonverbal expressions of speakers. To undertake a contrastive study of the language behaviors of Japanese and Korean speakers, I have established the multimedia corpora of Japanese and Korean talk shows. Improving upon the previous settings of the corpora (e.g.,these featured inconsistency in the number of transcribed spoken sentences materials in one unit cell, or the length of time of the video record capturing each speaker varied), I analyzed the ways the demonstrative pronouns of deixis, kore and yi-geot, were used in real dialogues. The comparative analysis of the two corpora revealed that kore is used to demonstrate the very things that are indicated, whereas yi-geot is used to demonstrate the gestures and the action movements of the speakers who use it. As pointed out, the scenes that included the speech acts of kore and yi-geot are not identical in the corpus of Japan or of Korea. In other words, the scenes that feature the two words in each corpus draw upon different situations and themes in the talk shows. Therefore, one should consider such differences in the corpora that were studied for this paper when researching the language behaviors of Japanese and Korean speakers. In order to reach a fuller understanding of the differences in the scenes of these languages as they were spoken, I further investigated the usages of words other than those studied in this paper.