2023 Baeksang Awards Nominations Fete the Extraordinarily Strong Lineup of Hit Dramas and Strong Performances with Only a Few Notable Misses

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• I love both Song Hye Kyo and Park Eun Bin. Both were great and both had great supporting casts. Both are winners to me but I know one goes home with the award. Fighting!

• Comment section here will be heated for sure lol
  Prepare your popcorn, people 🍿🍿🍿

• Well Jung Kyung Ho really does better in acting and I really happy for him and he really deserve the nomination. Finally after long career.His acting in CCIC is really good. Compare to SJK who is lacking in immersion.

  I don't think the ending of RR is that impactfull since the ending of sky castle is also getting hated by netizen, but the director and writers is still get nominated.

• Nice to see My Liberation Notes nab a bunch of nominations, but I'm confounded by Lee Min Ki getting shut out of recognition. He was the strongest actor in MLN and his character had the best development arc too.

  • Yeah, I was impressed seeing him able to memorize long dialogues. The way he spoke, made me able to relate to him

  • I agree,Lee Minki, deserves the recognition for his role in MLN. Hope they give it a proper choice.

• In the female actor category I'm mostly satisfied, I enjoyed the performance of the five. PEB and SHK are the two obvious favorite candidates. KHS is always good. KJW gave so much feelings with such a quiet character, and Suzy was such a pleasant surprise, I first hoped to like her acting and ended up loving her acting and waiting for her next job.

  There's also KGE. If there would be 6 nominee, she for sure would be the sixth. She did espectacular, as much as this 5 nominee and I hope her fans don't start to send hate to KJW or Suzy (I don't think they would dare to say that she deserves better than SHK, PEB or KHS cause of their popularity or seniority)

• Frankly, there’s no real competition between SHK and PEB. SHK’s performance was fantastic from her standards. PEB’s, on the other hand, was fantastic from just about anyone’s standards. If anything, I’d say it’s KSH who should be giving PEB a run for her money.

  As for SJK, he wasn’t exactly the anchor of Reborn Rich. That would be Lee Sung Min who really was the heart and soul of that drama. Generally, rom-coms don’t get as much of a nod, so happy to see JKH in there.

  I hope they release the panel votes like they did in the past. That would be interesting as the competition is tight for most of these.

  • I agree with this comment on comparing the 2 actresses: SHK and PEB. PEB is a more versatile actress who can convincingly play a character with skilled acting, as in the autistic Atty. Woo, whereas SHK has one kind of facial expression that she has worn similarly in the roles she has played in several dramas. The role she played in The Glory suited that same facial expression. She did well but not extraordinarily out of her usual.

• Through the darkness ? Kim Nam Gil ? Lee Min Ki as a best supporting actor ? ( My liberation notes ), ... Jung Kyung Ho is a good actor but hir role wasn't a challenging one , in this case, they should have nominated Jun Do Yun even if her role was a basic one . Yoo Sun ?

  • I don't think in order to act as mentor matematician naturally he has to ace at least some difficult matematic is not challenging at all, though. A least you to at least have to learn to convince audience you are no 1 mentor in his field.

  • KNG was nominated in last year’s Baeksangs. Lee Min Ki wasn’t really in a supporting role. And Yoo Sun? For what? Eve?!

    • Eve was a BIG mess but Yoo Sun was a really psycho . it's my point of view . I didn't remember that KNG was nominated last year, so mea culpa ! As for Lee Min ki he impressed me in this role , and if Lee El is nominated for the female category, why not him in the male one . After all, they were brother and sisters and all ace their role .

• I have watched all the best actress nominees’ dramas and I dare to say that SHK and Suzy is my top choice. Their acting in The Glory and ANNA respectively is so nuance and constrained throughout the drama. This grey character where they are the criminals but feels so humane that it makes you root for them is the best. it’s too bad that ANNA wasn’t well distributed and it makes people don’t know how great suzy’s acting there. Btw a sweet surprise to see KJW too. For PEB and KHS, I already expected these two will be nominated 😃

• Song Joong Ki’s pursed lips acting was embarrassing and heavily criticized. He was out acted by everyone in the drama, including the child actor. Baeksang is the most prestigious and credible award in Korea for a reason. They didn’t give him a nomination just because the drama did well.

  • I never even read any bad comment about of his acting in RR? And he was only outacted by Lee Sung Min. SJK certainly performed better than Jung Kyung Ho who probably got "long overdue" nomination in time that he finally headlining a really hit drama. You obviously being hateful on SJK for nothing.

    • There is some bad comment in Youtube channel for korean netizen in korean language for SJK. They complain about SJK lack of immersion. And i agree. All of his worshipers won't dare to critics him. He even get outacted by Shin Hyun Been Imo, and to think SHB lack screen time lol.

      There is nothing to write about in his previous roles vincenzo either, but at least he bring sincerity to his performances and he care. But in here his performances is very underwhelming.

    • There were tonnes of criticism on his acting in Korean forums. His character can have lots of layers and complexity but all he did was try to act young with that stupid pursed lips gesture. RR got the second highest ratings in cable history and a lot of buzz during its run. Normally this bags a Baeksang nomination for the lead even if the performance was just average. He was that bad. And it’s not because one drama can only have one nomination per category. See nominations for best actress in 2019 and other categories this year.

  • There is a reason for which people are criticising sjk and we all know that reason. But sjk's charcters was that only. He was playing 90s college boy and has nothing to do more. The character were that much only. People compare his characters with Lee sung min's which is incomparable. They were 2 different people. It's not that if Lee sung min would have played jin do Jun he would have done better ur sjk played grandpa he must be terrific.

    • I have a lot of love for SJK but I agree the character of Do Jun wasn't his best. However, his doppelganger the secretary (forget his name), now THAT was an excellent & poignant portrayal. Very frustrating that we only got to see what sjk really can do in the first & last eps plus a couple of scenes. That repressed anger, despair & frustration, he can deliver such intensity. Pity we got the rich tween instead..

• i'm rooting for Park Eun Bin...fantastic job!!!!

  • None of the others can touch her.

  • The winner, without a doubt.