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This study investigated Korean English learners’ awareness of English swearword use. Forty six Korean college students and 15 English native speakers participated in the study and two questionnaires designed to examine the frequency of swearword use in daily life and the awareness of swearword rudeness in conversations were implemented. Results from the analysis of One-way ANOVA and Pearson Correlation revealed that there were statistically significant differences between Korean English learners and English native speakers in the awareness of swearword rudeness in conversations and there were mild correlations between the frequency of swearword use in daily life and the awareness of swearword rudeness. The directions of further studies were discussed with the limitations of this study.