The purpose of this study is to analyse Korean language learners` interlanguage development of topic-prominent characteristics focused on subject ellipsis, topic markers ``un/nun``, and double-nominative construction from the perspective of the type of language and to investigate whether the result supports language transfer or universal grammar. To conduct an experiment, the learner`s writing materials were collected from beginning learners under six months and advanced learners over eighteen months who came from China and America, and ten Korean native speakers. They watched a silent film named "Mr. Bean", then wrote a story about the film. As a conclusion, the result showed that subject ellipsis, topic markers ``un/nun``, and double-nominative construction appeared as same with native Korean speakers in spite of learners` native language and the spending time of learning Korean. This study also found out that learners showed strong use of topic prominent characteristics no matter their native language at the early stage of development. These results support the view of universal grammar. (Kyunghee University)