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The aim of this paper is to investigate if Korean speakers accept internally-headed relative clauses and to decide if there are internally-headed relative clauses in Korean. To achieve the goals, we reexamined two experimental data. The results of the study showed that Korean speakers judged the grammaticality of internally-headed relative clauses around 70% of the time, suggesting that they accept the existence of internally-headed relative clauses restrictively. The results also suggest that 'defective-looking' internally-headed relative clauses observed in the early period of Korean language development seem to be 'real' ones.