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The purpose of this study was to analyze the use of connectors in English writing between Korean college students’ corpus and LOCNESS. Specifically, the study examined the students’ use of connectors in terms of the three categories of connectors such as coordinators, subordinators, and conjunctive adverbials by Yoon and Yoo(2007) and four categories of the conjunctive adverbials by Celce-Murcia and Larsen-Freeman(1999). The participants were 24 students who took the Intermediate English Composition in a local university in Busan. The findings have shown that the Korean university students overused ‘but, when, so, first’ and underused ‘and’ than LOCNESS. In addition, the findings showed that their use of connectors have increased gradually over the course of the semester. The findings will shed light on how better college instructors may be able to help teach the use of connectors in Korean students’ English writing.