Although the research on floating numeral quantifiers(FNQs) has been advanced a great deal over the past few decades, there still remain a lot of questions that need to be answered, particularly concerning their nature and distributional restrictions in a sentence. This paper gives an overview of what has been done so far in the languages of Korean and Japanese, highlighting credits and potential problems of the three currently existing views on FNQs; stranding-, adverb- and hybrid views. I hope that this paper sheds light on some of the critical issues that need to be resolved and thus require further investigations. (Kyungpook National university)