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Many studies have been done to see if Korean syntactic causatives and morphological causatives have the same structure or not and this question is still controversial. The main issue is whether they have monoclausal or biclausal properties. For the syntactic causatives, researchers seem to agree that they have biclausal properties, whereas for the morphological causatives, there are many disagreements. This paper focuses on the morphological causatives, trying to explain why these disagreements come about. It is claimed that the Korean morphological causatives are ambiguous based on the causee's full agent vs. weak agent, and many disagreements in the literature are due to the ambiguity in the Korean morphological causatives.