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Um, Hong Joon. 2014. A Study of the Properties of Korean Reflexive 'Caki'. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 39-4, 899-919. The purpose of this paper is to identify the properties of Korean reflexive 'caki', adopting Chomsky's (1981, 1986) Binding Theory and Reinhart & Reuland's (1993) Binding Condition. Korean reflexive 'caki', unlike reflexives of other languages, e.g., English himself, can be used variously: it functions as a long distance bound anaphor, a locally bound anaphor and a variable (bound by quantifiers). Since the pronoun can be long distance bound and bound by quantifiers, Choi (2014) argues that Korean reflexive 'caki' is a bound variable pronoun. However, if it is the pronoun, it violates Principle B of Chomsky's (1981, 1986) Binding Theory and Reinhart & Reuland's (1993) Binding Condition. Futhermore, in VP ellipsis constructions, 'caki' requires only sloppy readings which means that 'caki' is a bound anaphor, according to Cole, Herman & Huang (2006). Therefore, this paper claims that it cannot be a bound variable pronoun, but a bound variable anaphor. Lastly, it is proven, again, that the null argument in Korean cannot be properly explained by Pro analysis using the theories. (Keimyung University)