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Depictive secondary predicates have been a central topic of discussion in the vast literature for a long time, providing a lot of challenges for syntactic and semantic theory. There have been many syntactic analyses of depictive secondary predicates: small clause/control analysis, flat ternary analysis, adjunction analysis and complex predicate analysis. This paper discusses depictive secondary predicates in Korean and proposes a hybrid approach to Korean depictives in order to account for the different properties of subject-oriented depictives(SOD) and object-oriented depictives(OOD). In this paper, we make three main claims: (i) Korean –key depictives are not adjectival predicates, but adverbs, (ii) Korean SODs are similar to manner adverbs, and adjoined to VP, and (iii) Korean OODs are adjoined to V and form a complex predicate with the following verb, just like serial verbs.