It has little possibility that a cable causes any problem in electric power facilities. But when a trouble occurs in cable or cable joint, the damage is very severe. The main causes of the cable defections are bad cable making procedure, poor cable operation and deterioration according to the years. There are some cases to have potential problems due to many cable connection points, because of short length of cable, especially in 154㎸ system. In this study, novel method to measure partial discharge in cable joints is proposed and the effectiveness and the reliability of the proposed method is shown through experiment results of field.