Microstructures and fracture toughness of the weld heat-affected zone of the ductile cast iron have been investigated. With increasing the cooling time from 800℃ to 500℃, the matrix structure of the heat-affected zone was transformed to martensite, martensitet pearlite, pearlite and pearlite including small amount of ferrite. The use of a proper preheat temperatures prevented the formation of martensite. These welding conditions corresponded to the preheat temperature of 200℃, heat input of 30KJ/㎝. And the instrumented charpy impact test has been carried out on a welded ductile cast iron. Result showed that the dynamic fracture toughness, K_(Id) was increased slightly with preheat temperature and heat input. In this work, it was shown that apparent impact energy includes contributions other than that of the true deflection of specimen. We found that a compliance energy correction was always needed to determine the true specimen energy. For this purpose, elastic compliance value of testing machine was measured dynamically by the low blow test to correct the apparent impact energy. From these results, the true specimen energy was nearly 62 percent of an apparent impact energy value. There, in instrumented impact testing, machine compliance corrections must be adapted to load-deflection curve.