We report the discovery of KELT-14b and KELT-15b, two hot Jupiters from the KELT-South survey. KELT-14b, an independent discovery of the recently announced WASP-122b, is an inflated Jupiter mass planet that orbits a $sim5.0^{+0.3}_{-0.7}$ Gyr, $V$ = 11.0, G2 star that is near the main sequence turnoff. The host star, KELT-14 (TYC 7638-981-1), has an inferred mass $M_{*}$=$1.18_{-0.07}^{+0.05}$$M_{odot}$ and radius $R_{*}$=$1.37pm{-0.08}$$R_{odot}$, and has $T_{eff}$=$5802_{-92}^{+95}$K, $log{g_*}$=$4.23_{-0.04}^{+0.05}$ and =$0.33pm{0.09}$. The planet orbits with a period of $1.7100588 pm 0.0000025$ days ($T_{0}$=2457091.02863$pm$0.00047) and has a radius R$_{p}$=$1.52_{-0.11}^{+0.12}$$R_{J}$ and mass M$_{p}$=$1.196pm0.072$$M_{J}$, and the eccentricity is consistent with zero. KELT-15b is another inflated Jupiter mass planet that orbits a $sim$ $4.6^{+0.5}_{-0.4}$ Gyr, $V$ = 11.2, G0 star (TYC 8146-86-1) that is near the blue hook stage of evolution prior to the Hertzsprung gap, and has an inferred mass $M_{*}$=$1.181_{-0.050}^{+0.051}$$M_{odot}$ and radius $R_{*}$=$1.48_{-0.04}^{+0.09}$$R_{odot}$, and $T_{eff}$=$6003_{-52}^{+56}$K, $log{g_*}$=$4.17_{-0.04}^{+0.02}$ and [Fe/H]=$0.05pm0.03$. The planet orbits on a period of $3.329441 pm 0.000016$ days ($T_{0}$ = 2457029.1663$pm$0.0073) and has a radius R$_{p}$=$1.443_{-0.057}^{+0.11}$$R_{J}$ and mass M$_{p}$=$0.91_{-0.22}^{+0.21}$$M_{J}$ and an eccentricity consistent with zero. KELT-14b has the second largest expected emission signal in the K-band for known transiting planets brighter than $K<10.5$. Both KELT-14b and KELT-15b are predicted to have large enough emission signals that their secondary eclipses should be detectable using ground-based observatories.
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