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This study investigates the meanings of Korean Evidential markers in terms of pragmatic inference. For this purpose, it is essential that we divide the meanings into three layers; basic, explicature and implicature meanings. In basic meanings, evidential markers indicate information sources about propositions. The other two meanings come from pragmatic inference. First, as for explicature meanings, it is an explicit meaning occurred by pragmatic inference. At this layer, evidential markers represent ‘dis-assertion’, which denotes a speaker’s attitude toward a proposition. It means the speaker is not sure the proposition is true. Evidential markers form a hierarchy by strength of dis-assertion, as follows; ‘direct