In this study, the aspects of communication in TV current issue discussion program of Korea and Japan were examined from three perspectives of ‘development of discourse’, ‘speech level’ and ‘hedge’. As a result, it was found that the current issue discussion program of Korea is proceeding in the form of more consideration for viewers compared to current issue discussion program of Japan at the beginning and the end part of the discussion. For speech level, the defaults of speech level was polite form, and there were many similar contexts where each speech level is used in both Korea and Japan. In the current issue discussion program of Korea, the ratio of ‘polite form’ is noticeably high compared to that of Japan, whereas in the current issue discussion program of Japan, the ratios of ‘non-polite form’ and ‘incomplete utterance’ are relatively high compared to that of Korea. This result shows that speech levels are being operated more dynamically in the current issue discussion program of Japan. In addition, the ratio of hedge was relatively higher in the current issue discussion program of Japan than that of Korea, and it means that Japanese language and cultural characteristics, which are reluctant to express their opinions directly, are reflected in the current issue discussion program.