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The purpose of this study is to analyze defamatory statements in American and Korean political discourse, and to compare their degree of explicitness cross-culturally using an experimental method. This study defines defamatory statements as the illocutionary acts of accusation and insult, and hypothesizes that Americans make defamatory statements more explicitly than Koreans based on Hofstede’s(2001) cultural dimensions. A total of 463 tokens are collected from presidential TV debates and analyzed on the basis of Stadler’s(2011) coding system. The explicitness of defamatory statements is also discussed with regard to the cultural dimensions.