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This study aims to analyze various aspects of the multimodal cohesion formulated between visual elements on screen and offscreen/on-mute dubbing dialogues in a personally built multimodal corpus, named Multimodal Corpus of English-dubbed Korean Films, consisting of 12 films released in a DVD format in North America from 2002 to 2017. Based on the model of visual-verbal cohesion and the concept of information linking, this study identifies that the offscreen and on-mute dubbing dialogues show multiple forms of multimodal cohesion. Visual elements and dubbing dialogues form the relations of elaboration: dubbing dialogue making the image more specific (specification), and dubbing dialogues paraphrasing the image (explanation). The relation can be extended to make dubbing dialogues narratively cohesive or give a spoiler (extension). This study shows that visual elements and dialogues create visually cohesive relations, enhancing target audience’s understanding of dubbed films.