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The purpose of this study is to analyze the distinctive characteristics of the noun distribution in the Korean adnominal case construction, namely, the 'N1-ui N2' construction. As a methodological framework, we adopt a collostructional analysis, including a covarying collexeme analysis, which is a statistically sophisticated methodology couched within the tenets of the Constructional Grammar (Stefanowitsch 2013, Stefanowitsch & Gries 2003, Gries & Stefanowitsch 2004, Hoffmann & Graeme 2013). The main analysis proceeds in the following steps: We first extract all the adnominal case constructions from a 11 million word Korean corpus, called the Sejong Semantic corpus, and identify N1 and N2 from each example. Then we apply the collostructional analysis, measuring the Association Strength of each N1 word to the N1 position, and each N2 word to the N2 position. We also measure the Association Strength for the covarying collexeme relations between N1 and N2 in each pair. We provide the top most ranked items in each of the three lists and discuss their syntactic and semantic characteristics. It is found that the group of nouns that characteristically appear in the N1 position cover various noun types like dependent nouns and proper names as well as regular nouns. Semantically the top ranked nouns tend to be of the agent types like people and social institutions. On the other hand, the distinctive group of nouns that rank highest in the N2 position mostly include regular nouns that are related to parts or properties of some objects. Finally, the highest ranked N1-N2 pairs typically form conventionalized and idiomatic expressions.