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This paper aims to observe the general characters of the Korean bound noun, and to examine the syntactic distribution and semantic function of '바‘. In a sentence, the bound noun '바' is expressed as a modified element of a relative clause. This distinctive feature has something to do with the subjective, nonconfigurative, and mental meaning of the relative clause. Therefore, the predicative of the relative clause has the meaning of perception, evaluation, and hearsay. As a lexical item, the meaning of the bound noun '바' is admitted of various interpretations, for instance abstractive fact and speaker's attitude toward to a situation etc. These various interpretations are realized by the relation of elements co-occurred with '바'. This paper is a part of the plan that we analyze complex usages of the Korean bound nouns. The research of this kind can be a meaningful work appropriate to the agglutination of Korean.