In Korean. the NPs marked by the topic marker -nun and the NPs marked by the nominative case marker kal -i can Produce a contrastive focus reading and an ev3rausHve focus madLng respectLveLy. TL, Paper Ls an attempt to Lnvestb t. a syntactic and a semende accwnt such Liimb of foci, When Lt comes to the syntactic aspect cf the c~nt[ Live focus readLII I argue Ln ails paper that the tope marker allowing a catrastLve focus madng Ls base-generated Lnstde VP. whereas the tope madsr ILowing a neutm.L madng Ls base-genem.ted outsLcb VP. In case d the esdiaustLve focus reading m the other herd, the nominative case marker Lndrcing n eviauslive focus madng is based- aerated VP-,internally wheres the nominative case madsr Lndudng a neutral readng is based-ernerated VP-internally, Thds paper also eapores