1. An apparatus topic based segmenting a video program, the apparatus comprising: a start-shot determination unit to detect a plurality of key-frames based on character information from video sequences including a plurality of frames to determine the detected key-frames as start-shots for each topic; and a topic list creation unit including at least one processing device to create a topic list based on the start-shots for each topic, wherein the start-shot determination unit determines the detected key-frames corresponding to a total number of main characters appearing in the video sequences and the total number of main characters is determined by analyzing an electronic program guide (EPG) signal and character clustering.