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This paper aims to analyze the syntactic/semantic nature of communicative reception reporting, focusing on the predicate tut- ‘hear’ in Korean. Some literature remarks that when tut- selects a ko complement to represent an indirect speech act, the subject-orientation of long distance caki can be circumvented. However, little attention goes to the fact that when a kes complement is used instead, such obviation cannot occur. To explain this kind of tension, we propose that (i) in terms of logophority, it is an attitude holder that becomes a target of the subject-orientation, and (ii) unlike kes complements, ko complements should employ an additional hidden speaking component where an attitude holder is determined via an independently motivated pragmatic condition. Several related environments are compared to buttress these points; e.g., indexical shifts in Turkish, long distance ziji in Mandarin Chinese, and a hear-say reporting construction in Korean.