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This study pays attention to the subtitles frequently employed when broadcasting Korean TV variety shows, and analyzes the functions of “attributive-final forms” occurring sentence-finally in the subtitles. Specifically, the attributive-final forms occurring sentence-finally in the TV variety subtitles were categorized into three types depending on the “mode” of their appearance, and subsequently their functions were analyzed. The major findings of this study are as follows. 　　 (Ⅰ) Attributive-final forms were found to serve four primary functions, i.e. Emphasis, mmary/Interpretation, Depicting, and Assertion-avoidance, arranged in order of frequency (from the most frequent to the least). (Ⅱ) In many cases, it is impossible to reconstruct a head noun following the attributive-final form. (Ⅲ) One of the noteworthy distributional characteristics of attributive-final forms is that most of these forms are in the present or past tense, arguably motived by the speaker’s intention to seek the addressee’s or the producer’s empathy/understanding and to make the description more vivid.