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The film dialogue helps guide the response of the spectator. Often dialogue is a tool for controlling viewers’ evaluation and emotion. And appraisal theory is the most fully developed model of evaluation. Thus it can show how viewers understand and evaluate specific situations or characters in films. This study aims to put forward the quantitative and qualitative shift of appraisal between Korean films and their dubbed versions. The findings show English-dubbed Korean films have far more appraisals than original Korean films do. The study presents three classifications where the use of appraisal comes into play: appraisals in the target text replace culture-specific items in the source text; appraisals evaluate situations in film; or appraisals evaluate film characters. By using appraisal much more in the target text, dubbed versions provide the target audience with a more explicit understanding of source culture, film plot and characters.