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I have examined Korean lexicalization patterns with respect to the five event conflation types: motion, state change, temporal contouring (aspect), action correlating, and realization, on the basis of Talmy (1991)’s conceptual structure based approaches. He reported that there are two major lexical conflation types, Spanish type verb-framed (TYPE 1) and English type satellite-framed (TYPE 2) languages, as to where languages characteristically map the schematic cores of the five framing events onto. Korean, as a whole, pertains to the Spanish type verb-framed languages where the core schema, e.g., Path of Motion event is conflated with the verb as in neh- (move.in). The distributional characteristics of Korean lexical conflation types between the TYPE 1 and TYPE 2 are as followings. In Motion and State Change framing event, the satellite-framed (TYPE 1-1) and the serial verb-framed (TYPE 1-2) mapping of core schema are both common. In contrast, there is a significant predominant usage in other three framing events; namely, the serial verb-framed (TYPE 1-2) lexical mapping of S-Relations is predominant in temporal contouring, whereas the satellite-framed (TYPE 1-1) mapping of S-Relations is very rare. In Action Correlating Event, unlike our expectation, the satellite-framed (TYPE 2) of core schema is predominant, and exceptions are almost of Sino-Korean loan words. Finally, in Realization, Korean verbs are also showing different kinds of realization types; namely, sanyangha- ‘hunt’ (action plus intention), ppal- ‘wash’ (action plus intention plus implicature) and cwuki- ‘kill’ (action plus intention plus fulfillment of that intention) as English does. However, as expected by its different lexical types, when there is needed a Event Conflation between a framing and a supportive events, Korean conflates a framing event onto a main verb and separates a supportive event onto a satellite form (adverbial clauses) as in example (71) John-i kom-lul sanyanghay-se cap-ess-ta where the main verb cap- ‘capture’ functions as a fulfillment marker. Finally two serial verb constructions are employed for this Realization event: ‘V1+noh (put)’ for fulfillment type and ‘V1+twu (put.for)’ for ‘preservation for the future’.