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This paper aims to examine whether the lifestyle of Korean participants influences temporal ambiguity resolution in English and Korean. The experiment investigated lifestyle differences between administrators and university students, focusing on their preferred temporal perspectives. The results indicate that administrators averaged significantly higher conscientiousness scores than students, while students averaged significantly higher procrastination scores than administrators and that administrators were significantly more likely to adopt the Time-moving perspective (responding Monday) than students, while both administrators and students were more likely to adopt the Time-moving perspective. Specifically, in the case of English question, the number of time-moving consistent responses significantly differs between administrators and students, while in the case of Korean question, the number of time-moving consistent responses does not significantly differ between administrators and students. This study shows an influence of lifestyle on Korean people’s temporal perspectives on the movement of events in time. Furthermore this study indicates that Korean participants have a baseline preference for the Time-moving perspective in the interpretation of the ambiguous ‘Wednesday’s meeting’ question.