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This study focuses on the ability of advanced academic Korean learners to distinguish and properly produce noun clauses according to their meanings and functions. Advanced Korean learners should also be able to understand and produce such embedded sentences, which allow clearer and more economical communications. This is even more so for academic Korean learners as they need to write theses in Korean. However, the study showed that even advanced Korean learners currently enrolled in Korean universities or graduate schools have difficulties understanding the syntactical conditions where two morphemes ‘-um’ and ‘-gi’ are used exclusively. Although these learners know about such morphemes, they did not know how different these morphemes are in their meanings and syntactical functions. Also, the study found out that acquisition of noun clauses with ‘-um’ was rarer compared to acquisition of those with ‘-gi.’ And they were employing the strategy of the quotative clauses or the expansion of sentences by using connective endings in place of noun clauses.