Many surface protection methods have been developed to apply to constructional steels to be used under severe corrosive environments. Thermal spray coating has been known to be an attractive technique due to its relatively high coating speed. However, the high corrosion resistance of coating films deposited by thermal spray method is increasingly required to expand its application. Four types of coated films (DFT: 200um), that is, pure zinc, pure aluminum, and two Al-Zn alloy (Al:Zn=85:15 and Al:Zn=95:5), were coated onto carbon steel (SS401) with arc spraying, and the corrosion behavior of their samples were evaluated by the electrochemical method in this study. The pure aluminum sample had the best corrosion resistance when exposed to seawater solution and alloy (Al:Zn=85:15), so called galvalume and alloy (Al:Zn=95:5) samples followed the pure aluminum sample. The pure zinc sample ranked 4thin corrosion resistance in this study. Morphology of corroded surfaces of pure aluminum and alloy (Al:Zn=85:15) samples exhibited a general corrosion pattern, however, the patterns of intergranular and pitting corrosion were observed for the pure zinc and alloy (Al:Zn=95:5) samples respectively. Pure zinc sample had the smallest value of porosity ratio compared to other samples due to its heavier density. Keywords : Surface protection methods, Thermal spray, Corrosion resistance, Pure aluminum, Pure zinc, Porosity ratio