This paper discusses deletion and movement operations in Korean from the perspective of information packaging, and claims that each operation is a systematic process of information packaging to generate the most optimized information structure. This paper argues that there is neither free word order nor free deletion in Korean. This paper explicitly illustrates that old arguments cannot stand still in information structure, but must undergo some kind of structural changes or deletion. This paper proposes a constraint on information packaging that covers both operations and gives an explanation of underlying motivation for them. It is also suggested to decompose each component of information structure into a feature complex. 1
