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This paper investigates Korean students' perception of English affixation in Korean neologisms. The new words formed by borrowing English vocabulary are regarded as an important part of the study of new Korean words. This paper concentrates on the newly coined words appearing in the daily language life, which shows the change of the behavior, the psychology, the situation, and the culture, especially among the new words formed by synthesizing the English morphemes. This paper includes 1) database construction of newly coined Korean words by affixing English morphemes, 2) the results of a survey of university students for the perception of neologism, 3) a discussion of the results, and 4) the implications for introducing and teaching the new words formed with English affixes for EFL students in Korea. The students will be able to engage in class by learning up-to-the-minute words and through an awareness of word formation in English, which will help learners understand other unfamiliar words that they could encounter; this will be a strong motivating factor for drawing learners’ attention to English vocabulary.