A coarse frequency recovery apparatus and method for use in a digital broadcast receiver using OFDM scheme, but having very strong resistance to a sampling offset is disclosed. According to the present invention, a correlation interval of the 8k-mode for coarse frequency recovery is divided into four 2k-mode intervals. Frequency offset estimation process is performed using the four 2k-mode intervals, such that individual phase variations are reduced, resulting in reduction of a negative influence caused by a sampling clock offset.