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This paper examines egressive aspectualizers, verbs of ‘ending’, in terms of aspectual meaning and situation types by comparatively analyzing the corresponding examples in English and Korean. First, egressive aspectualizers, particularly the cessation verb stop and the termination verb finish, are reviewed and analyzed by aspectual meaning of verb complement, telicity, and aktionsart. It is found that the corresponding examples of cessation and termination in two languages show almost the same semantic properties and the similar patterns of distribution although they show a subtle difference in subcategories. Second, they are analyzed by situation types, such as achievement vs. accomplishment and co-occurrences with other verb types: telicity, catenative with -ing form, and verb constellation. It is noteworthy that in the verb constellation, there is a distinguished property of compatibility between the termination verb and the activity type in Korean. For all that, it is implied that the semantic properties rather than syntactic constructions are generally shared in aspectual meaning and situation types of egressive aspectualizers in both languages.