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This paper argues that phonological alternations in Korean noun compounds―tensification and nasal epenthesis―result from gemination, not from any epenthesis. This gemination approach can not only provide a unified account of tensification and nasal epenthesis but also correctly predict that there is no phonological alternation in the compounds in which the second stem begins with a vowel. This paper also suggests that phonological alternations in compounds including gemination can be accounted for in terms of transderivational anti-faithfulness developed by Alderete(1999) without the problems that are involved in the analyses which employ a compound-specific genitive or adjective morpheme.