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Today's talk aims to contrast phonology of Korean and Vietnamese for Korean language education. Considering consonants, Korean having 21 typologically most plausible consonants display high universality in the number of consonants. However, Vietnamese shows higher universality in regards to their substance, i.e. it differs from Korean when it comes to the structure of plosives and fricatives. In respect of syllable structure, Korean with its CVC type shows a moderately complex structure while Vietnamese with its CCVC type has a complex structure. The contrastive study of similarities and differences between Korean and Vietnamese in terms of phonology will help not only understand the two languages but also provide useful information for increasing the efficacy of Korean language education for Vietnamese learners of Korean.