K-netizens Cast Votes for Their Pick for 2020 Lead Acting Drama Baeksang with Hyun Bin as Best Actor and Kim Hee Ae as Best Actress

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• Dasaeng kim hee ae
  Best actor hyun bin or park hae joon m park seoo joon as well. Strong category..
  Best actress son ye jin. Iu best work was my mister. Hotel show is not on lar with others imo.
  Either son ye jin or hyun bin will win bcoz i doubt they will award 2 actors from same show.
  Best new actress - mistress in wlm as she makes me hate her character that means she is doing gud or kim dami which i think she will win as she is already a top movie actress when she sweeped all new comer movie awards

  • Hyun Bin best actor and son Ye Jon best actress

  • All the nominees are very strong for both lead actor/actress award. Love them all!!
    Male: Hyun Bin or Kang Haneul (both are loveable)
    Female: IU, Gong Hyo Jin or Kim Hee Ae

    I think any win would be well deserved. Great Actors in both Category.

    • They forgot Park Hae Jun from The World of Married. He was amazing!!

• I hope Nam Goong Min wins. He's such a brilliant and versatile actor. He excelled in both Doctor Prisoner and Stove League last year. For actress, if Kim Hee Ae wins daesang, I'm rooting for Kim Hye Soo for Best Actress. Loved her in Hyena. I know CLOY was popular, but there's nothing to really write home about with Son Ye Jin's performance imo. I felt she overacted at times. Haven't seen WTCB or HDL, so no comment.

  • Kim hye su was brilliant in hyena. I nevee saw her work before but she blew me away. No wonder she is still top most movie actress despite being 50. She is magnificent . I m rooting for son ye jin but i can see kim hye su winning

  • I'm glad someone else would put in a vote for NGM. He doesn't have the same Hallyu power but he deserves it among these nominees.

    • i think winning the award is not only in acting, but also in other aspects, like charisma, how the character was portrayed, chemistry and other variables..

  • totally agree with you regarding Namgoong Min! Some might think it's easy to play his character in Stove League, but that character needed a strong actor to properly bring it to life.

    • Stove League was extremely well written and acted drama of 2019. If Namgoong Min doesn't win anything I should think awards are rigged and biased. I absolutely adore all these actors but I think he outperformed the others this time. He deserves the recognition.

    • I first saw him in doctors of kim rae won and shinye.. as a supporting cast.. more like an extra.. i wonder then.. why he got very little part but his acting was spot on.. i cried alot.. now he gets to have lead roles.. but perhaps star power is lacking...

  • Namgoong Min is crazy versatile, he has such good comic timing that he excels in funny dramas like Chief Kim, but also the range to do melo. I would love it if he wins, even though the others are good too.

  • Absolutely. I think Namgoong Min should atleast get some award. I absolutely adore Hyunbin, however Namgoong Min did more power role and he excelled in his roles.

• @koala I completely disagree with you about Gong Hyo Jin. Her acting is getting worst and twin Camellia she was practically acting in front of an invisible mirror glorifying and fawning at herself for being do good, if you know what I mean. She was so conscious of herself in every scene that it was so hard to watch. Not for me.

  • Gong hyo jin is overrated as hell. I dont get the hype around her tbh. Her acting is just okay, nothing special, not a best actress or even daesang worthy

    • agree. Gong hyo Jin is the winner tor being the most overrated actress.
      nothing to do with acting, but i do not like her attitude. i dont know is that arrogance. her not so pretty attitude matches her unpleasant looking _______.

    • Sorry to say but she won the daesang on kbs 2019 awards!!it's ok if she's not win this time because gong hyo Jin is humble person and she know also that other actresses is better than her character of Carmella's Bloom.Shes not assuming to win the best actress or daesang! If miracle happened,who knows if she's win!

  • I completely disagree too about ur nonsense opinion.she won daesang award(highest award) on kbs 2019 awards!! Her acting is superb..you can feel her how amazing she is...multi awarded actress and romcom queen of korea ,,,after you are concious wtf ,stupid!

  • I agree with you 100%. I watched Camella but found it dragging n slow. The acting of the leading lady is mediocre. Just one emotion. Too calm in everything that makes it unreal. WOTM is expected to win cause of its heavy drama but my honest opinion being objective is tgat SYJ potrayed all emotions possible. The leading man in Camella deserves to win than its leading lady. I haven't watched the others.

• Kim Hee Hae deserve
  KHH > Gong Hyojin >>>>>> IU/Son Ye-Jin >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hye Soo (the worst in the category by far)

  IU and Ye-Jin are here bcus of the popularity of the dramas, but they did great anyway, deserves nominations but not win.

  The male category is cleary inferior to me. The only who have an S tier role is Kang Haneul. Sad he will lose to Hyun Bin.

  • I guess you haven't watched stove League and Doctor Prisoner. Namgoong Min sort of outperformed everyone according to my opinion. Park Saejoon also has a little edge in performance. Unfortunately as much as I adore Hyunbin ,his character was a typical romantic man and maybe that's why his acting isn't worthy of the best actor award. If he wins it will be extremely biased. There are alot of other who performed extremely well in other dramas , if we look at it.
    The Popularity of the drama should not justify acting.
    Let's hope for the best.

• JJH won a Daesang for MLFTS and Lee Bo Young won Best Actress for I Can Hear Your Voice same year. Both were high rated and critically acclaimed dramas.Infact I liked LBY's performance better but nonetheless judges were there to decide.

  Kim Hee Ae is a wall but I think all actresses (minus IU cause HDL was not her best) has equal chances to win best actress. Their characters were unique in their own way. We rarely see a female self made chabeol, or a single mom in dramas. Thus we can't predict nonchalantly.

  • But yeah once KHA gets Daesang it will be really tough to choose from the rest for best actress.

• No offense but HDL is not IU's best work. Her chemistry alone with Yeon Jingoo was zero. Same as Hye Soo... I just shocked that Jang Nara is not nominated for VIP.

• Kim Hee Ae is 100% going to win the Daesang, there is literally no competition for her on the women's side and on the men's side. Her performance in The World of The Married was so phenomenal, she lifted this drama to the heights it has reached (28% of ratings nationwide/31% for the Seoul area for the last episode). I have seen all the performances from the other actresses and nothing they delivered came close to Kim Hee Ae's acting range and depth.

  For Best Actress and Best Actor, they'll split between Camellia's actors and CLOY's actors so it's going to be either Hyun Bin/Gong Hyo Jin or Kang Ha Neul/ Son Ye Jin.

• Just a random thought..
  So there was a drama which was supposed to star some big actors. People mocked and predicted it will be a flop cause starpower can't save a sloppy story.
  The drama starts airing,brings in good ratings. Then those same set of people start commenting that it was all due to popularity of stars. Script was meh! Acting was meh!Drama was overrated.!!Cheesey!!
  I don't get from where this elitism kicks in everytime a drama unexpectedly scores high .

  PS:
  I assume you all know I m talking about which drama.. I have nothing to say about the drama's quality cause enough is being said already but just some reactions kept me wondering that why people tend to contradict themselves.

  I m not talking about TWOM here cause no one dares to challenge that drama based on logical arguments, not even the highest tier of so called elitists.

  • I mean it still a bad drama. I can give you part of audience who doesn't like it, they just did not overrated it like the fans. They thought it perhaps 6/10

    Drama can be popular but doesn't mean it's good.

    The fans usually can't handle criticism, my bad

    • "I mean it is still a bad drama".
      On what basis you conclude it was "bad". No drama is perfect and some can cater to your taste while others can't.It is not compulsory to like every high rated dramas.
      But rather than believing you or your minority section of audience people would turn to critics.. A drama doesn't becomes "bad" if 3 out of 100 do not like it. It may not be the greatest but again you didn't get my point. It has flaws but it is people like you who tend to behave as elites by terming it bad , disaster just because they think it is getting too much attention. It may be overrated for you ,it is your taste .But numbers don't lie . Majority is taken into account.
      Again if it was that bad it wouldn't have been able to pull audience and reach 21.7 from 6. Nowadays A-listers don't guarantee high ratings cause this is 2020 after all.You are welcome to criticise it but outrightly claiming it as" bad drama" is only confirming your elite behaviour.

    • It became popular due to word of mouth only which a "bad drama" can't attain in 2020.

    • Son Ye-Jin for best Actress #CLOY

    • the fans is so defensive that we need bad comment to make it appear like a normal comment section.
      Many people dislike the show but they also don't bother to rate it which is why the rate for show like this is so skewed.

      High rating doesn'e always translate to quality

  • ...except that the stars have great chemistry, or the production values (OSTs, editing, special effects) are on point, and the story even if it is meh, isn't confusing and hard to follow for the first several episodes of the drama?

    Those differing opinions about different dramas, aren't actually contradictory.

  • If this is about CLOY, Hyun Bin's portrayal as Capt. Ri was great. It's not only because of his good looks.

    Does being an award-worthy actor or actress have to constitute scenes of strong and intense emotions ?
    What about those character that's supposed to portray as someone that's not emotional, doesn't talk much as Capt Ri, and is even more comfortable letting Pyo Chi Su, or Man Bok steal the scene? Isn't that synonymous to acting?

    portraying your character well isn't all about having a longer dialogue with intense emotions,memorable grandeur lines ever spoken. It's equally important to consider how the actor manages to consistently stick to the character when the other characters in the scene play out as well.

    Being low profile, keeping quiet, and allowing others to take the power seat when it's best for the scene is acting too. Notice how many times the 4 subordinates are stealing the show and the Capt is just actively listening to the conversations and looking at the person speaking then transitioning his attention as he waits for someone to answer back. I like how he is silent in several scenes and allows his subordinates to goof around.

    I like how Capt Ri's shoulders seem to fold on scenes w/the Director General, his father.
    His shoulders can act.

    I do not believe that emotional outbursts is always great acting if it's not necessary in your character.

    • Agree. MARLON Brando is.one actor that doesnt talk much but his visuals are always spot.

    • I completely agree with you. Sad to say that most would vote for a heavy drama than a more entertaining film like CLOY. People think that HB doesn't deserve to win because he didn't have long dialogue n the acting is but controlled because of his character.

  • I'm a Filipino who love very much to watching korean drama or movie!!!and I love it because of gong hyo jin.its ok if not she win best actress or daesang!if all Korean netizen not wanted she's win it's ok but don't talk bad about her! She's not perfect and we're not all perfect! If son hye Jin or other actresses winner so good for them! because gong hyo Jin prove herself already that she's deserve to win the daesang on kbs 2019 awards! Sorry also that I don't like the actress son hye Jin and other actresses! It's my freedom to choose also who's my favorite actress! Sports always!

  • there are lot of underrated kdramas that has a lot of good plots and acting. this covid19 got me binge watching kdramas way back from 2010 and a lot of good ones were not that popular same with the actors but the storyline is great. cliched cheesy or whatever, the cliffhanger after every episode makez you want to watch for more, and the background music is great.. unlike other dramas these days.. maybe the directors are not doing their job ??

• All deserve to be nominated, except for perhaps IU (at least not for this year). But I am not too salty about it, because I do realize that she has talent and improved massively throughout the years. She needs to improve in the voice department though. Which is odd to say, because she is a singer. But with younger actresses/actors I am always so surprised how unclear their voices are when speaking. Han So Hee has the same issue. Both actresses can act so well with their eyes, facial expressions and body language, but their voices are not comfortable to listen to. Veteran actresses always have a voice that is almost ASMR-like. It hypnotizes. Just listen to the voice of Lee Bo Young or Ha Ji Won for example. But if IU and Han So Hee learn to control their speaking voices, the world is literally their's. I have definitely see glimpses of excellent acting from both of them...

• Daesang: Kim Hee Ae
  Best Actor: Hyun Bin (the star power is strong in this one)
  Best Actress: toss up btw gong hyo jin and son ye jin