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A Study on Property and Application of Word Spacing in Korean Woo, Hyeong-Shik This paper presents the observation that the word spacing has been applied in its own unique way in Korean writing system. The word spacing is one of the orthographic methods in order to write and read a text effectively, and is related to grammatical structure and writing system in a language. In particular, the word spacing is a matter of especial importance in Korean as compared with other languages(English, Chinese, and Japanese etc). It is because Korean language is very agglutinative morphologically and written by an alphabetic letters, Hangeul. The original plan of Korean modern orthographic regularities were established in Unified Plan of Hangeul Orthography which was made public in 1933. And the regularities were revised several times by an academic society(The Korean Language Society) and a government agency(Ministry of Education). However they exposed differences of view in many parts of the word spacing. It was the most difficult problem to make a definite scope of the word forms. The word spacing is related to the morphological structure of sentence such as distinguishing between inflectional affixes and bound words. The authorited writing system of Hangeul prescribes that the inflectional affixes and postpositions should be attached to the stem of the word. But there are many classes of bound words, for example bound noun and numeral unit noun, auxiliary verb, it was an important issue whether the bound words left a space to the previous form in Korean. Therefore, the regularities of word spacing of Korean orthography is related to syntactic and semantic causes as well as morphological motivations, so they are dispersed in the diverse fields of writing system of Hangeul. Moreover, the word spacing is affected by writing tradition and conception of native speakers, so it has become an issue whether the phrasal words like proper noun combined by nouns, jargon, given name and last name, unit of numerals should be attached or not each other.