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Park, Hong-Keun. 2010. On Some Properties of In-situ and Ex-situ Wh-phrases in Korean. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 35-1, 89-118. This paper addresses the question of whether wh-phrases in Korean move at all. Movement to C domain and scrambling are the two cases to be considered. Developing on Chung's (1996) proposal, I suggest that wh-phases in Korean not undergo movement to C domain, having their inherent formal feature [WH] licensed by the interrogative C (realized as Qu(estion)-marker), via (unselective) binding. Apparent island effects on adjunct wh-phrases are shown to be ascribed to a certain constraint that holds for movement to a discourse-functional projection relating to contrastivity. However, I argue against scrambling of wh-phrases qua information focus, an analysis whose empirical supports lie in the quantifier intervention effect and the so-called anti-superiority effect. I claim that these effects result from violation of independent conditions on quantifier chain formations (Aoun and Li 2003) and binding (relating to either weak crossover or unselective binding), under a reasonable assumption that some wh-phrases may have a quantificational feature [QN]. Thus, ex-situ occurrences of wh-phrases in Korean are only derived by the need to check off (or license) their discourse-functional roles other than information focus such as topic and contrastive focus. (Yonsei University)