Languages like Korean show that kinship nouns exhibit pronominal properties as well as logophoric properties. In ordinary sentences, core kinship nouns such as anay ‘wife’ refer to the speaker as well as the c-commanding antecedent either locally or long-distance similar to reflexives with logophoric properties. In VP ellipsis context, however, both strict and sloppy interpretations are available. Assuming a reflexive PRO must be distinguished from a pronominal PRO, it is argued that core kinship nouns bear a reflexive PRO as its implicit argument and that the reflexive argument has logophoric properties. The extended kinship nouns such as halmeni ‘grandmother’, or hyeong ‘elder brother’, employ a pronominal PRO as their implicit argument, losing logophoric characteristics.