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This paper analyzed narrative characteristics of a writer through the comparison of two literary works of the same writer. Two literary works written by Byeong-mo Gu were chosen for this purpose: ‘A Spoonful of Time’ and ‘To the Ivory Gate’. The corpus was compiled with these two texts, and all the words are POS-tagged. Then, AntConc was utilized for the analysis of corpus data. Three types of linguistic factors were incorporated in this analysis: high-frequency words, n-grams, and pronouns. Through the analysis, the following facts were revealed: (i) the highfrequency words showed the material of the work, (ii) n-gram analysis foregrounded the atmosphere of the work intended by the author, and (iii) pronouns were rarely used when referring to characters. Although there were some valid aspects of analyzing literary works through the corpus analysis, it was recommended that a database of literary works was necessary to be constructed by period and that further studies were necessary to be conducted based on the database.