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The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of the orthographic and morphologic information on Korean visual word recognition. While some previous research suggests the inhibitory effect for the orthographic priming and the facilitatory effect for the morphological priming, it is difficult to know clearly whether the inhibitory effect is merely an effect due to orthography information since morphological information and orthographical information are compounded. By using a repetition priming paradigm, two experiments with different SOA(60ms, 200ms) were carried out to compare the priming effects of three repetition conditions (orthographic, morpheme and simple word). The results showed significant inhibitory effects in single word and orthographic repetition condition in both SOA conditions. Inhibitory effects of the orthography and facilitatory effects of morphology seemed to be canceled out for morpheme repetition condition. These results suggest that both of the orthographic and morphologic information have an effect from the early stage of visual word recognition.