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Korean students’ TOEIC listening achievement and their empathy levels were measured in order to see whether or not there exists significant correlation between them. A TOEIC listening test was taken by 80 university students who were taking a TOEIC beginning class and its score was accepted as their achievement score in English listening. Their empathy levels were extracted through the questionnaire authorized by researchers. The students were categorized into three groups: high-empathy level group, intermediate-empathy level group, and low-empathy level group. In conclusion, no significant correlations were found between the empathy levels and TOEIC listening scores of the three groups. However, raw scores of each group increased as empathy levels increased, which warrants follow-up studies.