A mobile communication terminal and method of tuning a broadcast frequency in a mobile communication terminal are provided that reduces a time for performing frequency tuning when handover occurs during broadcast reception in a communication terminal. The present invention includes receiving a broadcast signal including location information, frequency link information, and transmission signal identification information, obtaining current cell information of the mobile communication terminal and neighbor cell information using the location information, obtaining frequency information of a neighbor cell to the mobile communication terminal using the frequency link information, and searching for the frequency matched to a currently received broadcast signal using the obtained frequency information for the neighbor cell and the transmission signal identification information.