Data from natural conversation in Korean shows that the distal demonstrative ce as a filler addresses the linguistic politeness. The speaker, by the use of the marker, creates an interpersonal distance: the speakers employs this marker as mitigation and face-saving strategies in order to mitigate a face-threatening act (i) by avoiding mentioning something due to any perceived risk of social transgression and/or (ii) by hedging an unwanted effect which a speech act could have on the addressee, by creating metaphorically an interpersonal distance/space. Such interpersonal distance is achieved through a transfer of linguistic distance into the domain of the psychological distance, which may bring about the implicature of politeness.