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The aim of this research is two-fold. I first attempt to compare linguistic terminologies in Chinese and Korean, and then implement a Korean-Chinese parallel database, which contain linguistic terms in Korean juxtaposed with their corresponding Chinese expressions. To do so, I extracted major terminologies used in the field of Korean linguistics based on their frequency and identified how they are translated in Chinese. I go one step further to demonstrate a three-way comparison: comparing how two different countries, China and Taiwan, use linguistic terminologies against their Korean counterparts. The outcome of this result has practical import; it can be used for researchers and students alike in Greater China, who are interested in linguistics and/or the Korean language as it is. I also discuss the demand of building a three-language- database, Korean-English-Chinese, to enhance the researcher’s understanding of terminologies in these languages, which often can be hindrance for researchers who are not familiar with two of the three aforementioned languages.