Abstract
Natural language is, no doubt, the reflect of a culture. Linguistic study has to consider this cultural element for the purpose of discussing a question of the grammatical structure. Treating a concept of tense (or more clearly time-tense) and especially one of future time-tense as a principal subject, we tried to understand how the concept of future tense is represented in Korean and French verbal systems. So, a comparative analysis should lead us to demonstrate the idea that the difference of grammatical structures between natural languages comes, in some measure, of the different manners of conceptualizing things and categorizing them. Through our work, we show the existence of a common conceptuel mechanism for the expression of " events to come " in Korean and in French, in spite of their linguistic and cultural differences. We expect that this study could contribute to a research of the best possible translation between French and Korean, following the reflection on the relation between language and thought (or culture).
