A method and apparatus for pre-processing service information (SI) in digital cable broadcasting are provided. A digital cable broadcast receiver includes a point-of-deployment (POD) module which provides service information (SI) data transmitted by a head end to a demultiplexer, the demultiplexer which extracts one or more section tables required for reconstructing channel information and program event information by demultiplexing the SI data and provides raw section table data regarding the extracted section tables, and an SI processing module which obtains SI data required for reconstructing the channel information and the program event information by processing the raw section table data and stores the SI data in a memory.