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Recently, one of the most intriguing linguistic phenomena in Korean might be blending. The blending process is bit different from compounding, whereby the clipping of words and the combining of those clipped parts occur at the same time. In the current study, we examined blending words made in Korean as well as the words in English. It seems that Korean grammar may intervene in the procedures of the Korean blending word formation. In addition, some blended words seem to have suffixes in Korean recently. These suffixes are mainly derivational suffixes. In the present study, we argue that there is high productivity, regularity, as well as constraints in Korean blending word formation. We think that blending phenomenon is not a part of destroying Korean language, but a part of general linguistic phenomena which provide new words into the language.