Honey Lee Wins Daesang at the 15th Annual Korea Drama Awards and Queen of Tears Takes Home Best Drama

I still remember when the Korea Drama Awards started and it seemed like a joke but now it’s been 15 years and still going strong as part of the annual Korea Drama Festival. It’s also good that it happens in the fall as an outlier as the prestigious awards are usually in the spring while the network prizes are awarded at year end. This year Honey Lee won the Daesang for her role in Knight Flower, which also won her the Baeksang Best Actress earlier this year. Queen of Tears won for Best Drama and of course cue the yay-nays on this selection. Best Actress went to Jung Ryeo Won for The Midnight Romance in Hagwon (Korean title Graduation) while Im Shi Wan got the award for Best Actor for his performance in Boyhood. Rounding out the acting awards in the Top Excellence category were Lee Yi Kyung for Marry My Husband and Ji Seung Hyun for Korea–Khitan War and on the lady side it was Go Min Si for Sweet Home 2. Some random fun awards were Kim Soo Hyun and Kim Ji Won as Best Couple in QoT and this year’s breakout Byun Woo Seok getting the Hot Star (Male) award.

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Kim Soo Hyun Leads Star Studded Recipients of the 2024 NEWSIS K-EXPO Awards

This week the event called the NEWSIS K-EXPO took place and was sponsored by many Korean agencies and government groups including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, Seoul Metropolitan Council, Korea Creative Content Agency, and Seoul … Continue reading

Yang Mi and Liu Shi Shi the Most High Profile Flowers to Not Have a C-drama Nominated for the 2024 Golden Eagle Awards While Yang Zi Leads with Four Dramas

So the Golden Eagle Awards are for the serious fare and most of the Flowers in C-ent are doing idol dramas with the rare one-off to tackle a procedural or war-era period piece. But it is striking that both Yang … Continue reading

Blossoms Shanghai Wins Best Drama at the 2024 Magnolia Awards with Hu Ge and Zhou Xun Taking Home the Best Acting Awards Respectively

The Shanghai Film Festival wrapped up this week with the awards portion giving out the 2024 Magnolia Awards. The biggest winner was Blossoms Shanghai taking home both Best Drama (TV show) and Best Actor for Hu Ge. There wasn’t a … Continue reading

Moving Takes Home Drama Daesang, The Worst of Evil Wins Best Director, Namgoong Min Gets Long Awaited Best Actor, and Honey Lee Upsets for Best Actress in Fun Night at the 2024 Baeksang Arts Awards

The 2024 Baeksang Arts Awards took place this Tuesday May 7th in Seoul and it was also the 60th year of the event so a milestone for sure. There is a lot to digest so let’s get to it! Moving … Continue reading

Namgoong Min Takes Home the Daesang at the 2023 MBC Year End Drama Awards and Sageuk My Dearest Wins Big in All Categories

It was the night for prestige sageuk drama My Dearest over at the MBC Year End Drama Awards. Male lead Namgoong Min won the Daesang for his performance in the drama, Best Couple with Ahn Eun Jin, which also took … Continue reading

Popular C-stars Deliver on Glamour Yet Again at the 2023 Tencent Video All Star Awards

This week Tencent held its own 2023 Tencent Video All Star Awards to celebrate the actors and actresses who did a Tencent project this year. It’s like the network drama years in South Korea so all attendees are there basically … Continue reading