This brief analysis examines the interactional practice of complimenting and responding to compliments using MCA. The topic is not new; numerous CA studies have brought to light how people tend to respond to compliments and how such tendencies can be understood in terms of the sequential organization of turn-taking. In American English, for instance, a compliment tends to call for a response in the following turn, which downgrades praise or shifts the referent (Pomerantz, 1978). This paper offers an example of MCA applied to a compliment-response sequence using an extract translated from a Korean radio show involving a female celebrity (Sun) as the host and an actress (Kim) as the guest.