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The present study concerns the nature of the generative mechanism of Korean neologisms combined with English. Focusing on morphological word formation patterns and generative characteristics, this paper analyzes newly-coined words containing English morphemes. First, the examination shows that the portion of newly-coined mixtures of Korean and English generated by compounding and blending was the highest. Also, shortening forms generated by economic principles undergo multiple word-formation processes such as combination or derivation after shortening or blending. A strong tendency of affixation is probed. Every prefix is in Korean with a single syllable whereas suffixes are not the case. Interestingly, not only can lexical morphemes be acted as affixes(e.g. -look as in "여신룩, 재벌룩"), but clipped forms of them are also used just like affixes(e.g. -ting