I had my own thoughts:
(1) Inkigayo was not a Kdrama but a variety show... how rarely that a non-Kdrama/variety show was officially nominated for Baeksang Award.
(2) Netflix dominated Baeksang this year, either a Netflix originals or even Netflix acquired originals. Reborn Rich was already available on Netflix in South Korea only but we'll might have to wait for the confirmation of the Netflix availability release date outside South Korea this year (hopefully). Big Bet was a Disney+ original. Non-Netflix originals are Anna, New Recruit and Weak Hero Class 1.

I don’t know why I feel so robbed. The Glory won the Best Drama? Compared to it’s competitors? Even me feeling slighlty insulted for them, especially sorry for Little Women team (they don’t reall winning a good one). At least they gave Best Actress to SHK because PEB is won the Daesang. But what is the redemption for giving The Glory the Best Drama trophy?

Honestly, at this point they just make sure each drama or movie in the listed as nominees get an award. They don’t care whether one could have the best screenplay, or actor, or directing altogether in one drama. They just won’t give a solid project the number of trophies it actually deserves.

a few surprises for me. I didnt think the glory would win best drama at all. and honestly, I think SHK getting the best actress over hyesoo doesn't make a lot of sense, no matter how successful the drama was.

on the other hand, lee sungmin getting best actor was probably the most expected award for the night. and park eunbin with the daesang is a small surprise because for a moment i thought the industry could have forgotten EAW because it was almost a year ago, but at the same time its not an absurd for her to win it at all. it was my favorite performance last year and I'm super happy that her hard work throughout these years got her this big award. our two new actors were also expected considering their popularity and the projects they were on. they did a good job and I didn't think anyone else could take the awards from them.

For me, best drama would be MLN, but I didn't watch The Glory so I don't really have anything to say.

Can I talk about the dresses instead? They're so pretty. 😍 Well, all the actresses are looking gorgeous. 💚

Drama:
When Lee Sung-min won best actor, I knew the Daesang was open for Park Eun-bin. She has been a joy to watch since "Empress Myeongseong." I teared up during her speech; she was gracious and humble as always. The only other actress I got emotional over was Chun Woo-hee when she won best actress for "Han Gong-ju" at the Blue Dragon Awards.

Film:
I'm so happy for Teng Wei, who won best actress for "Decision to Leave" and Byun Yo-han, best-supporting actor in "Hansan: Rising Dragon.
Park Haeil better win the best actor at the Blue Dragon Awards.

I am happy for Lee Sung-min and Jo Woo-jin. Yay! They deserve it.
And best screen play for My Liberation Note.

Bae Suzy was the best-dressed actress on the red carpet. She made the most beautiful black swan.

I'm sad that Lee Sung-min didn't win the Daesang.

The most-deserving award of the night was Lim Ji-yeon for Best Supporting Actress.

Best New Actor and Best New Actress winners Moon Sang-min and Roh Yoon-seo need to star in a drama together because they would make a beautiful couple and are the same age.

Its ironic that Song Hye-gyo won best actress award when a year ago we were wondering if she even knew *how* to act after watching 'Now We Are Breaking Up'. In Ms. Song's defense, though, if you look closely at the series you'll notice EVERYBODY was wooden and lifeless, even Jang Ki-yong! That's on the head of the director, not the actors. It takes a special talent to be able to turn gold into poo.

While I am over the moon with Park Eun-bin winning the daesang and Lee Sung-min winning best actor, I want to bang my head against the wall from frustration with The Glory winning the best drama and Song Hye-kyo winning best actress with Kim Hye-soo on the list along with other, at least from my viewpoint, more deserving actresses.

I am okay with best director, best Screen play awards even though it wasn't my original pick and for sure the best new actor and actress are making me jump with joy. But those mentioned above are getting me frustrated.

I'm so happy for Park Eun-bin, she really deserved it. She was the focus in Extraordinary Attorney Woo.

Best Drama : I don't think The Glory was the best drama... It was difficult to choose in the nominate list but The Glory was cleary not the winner for me.

Best Director : I like the winner. Kim Hee-won for Little Women would have been a good winner too.

Best Screenplay : I'm so happy for My Liberation Notes. This drama was unique. I'm happy that the Hong sisters didn't win because AoS 1 and 2 were really badly written, nothing made sense.

Best Actor : You can't do wrong with Lee Sung-min as a winner. He was great in this role. My second choice was Sohn Seok-gu in My Liberation Notes.

Best Actress : Song Hye-gyo wasn't great in The Glory. I think a lot of actresses could have done the same or better. She had no chemistry with Lee Do-Hyun. Kim Hye-soo was the heart of Under the Queen’s Umbrella and we could feel her love for these boys.

Best Supporting Actor : I didn't watch Narco-Saints but I don't have doubts about Jo Woo-jin's win.

Best Supporting Actress : If someone needed to win for The Glory, Im Ji-yeon was a good choice. But it's sad they didn't recognize the actors who played the younger versions because for me, they had the most difficult part to play between torture and victim.

Best New Actor : I liked Moon Sang-min in Under the Queen’s Umbrella. He was good in the first part of the drama but when I was expecting to see more from his character, some evolution, he stayed the same. Hong Kyung was good in Weak Hero Class 1. He portrayed an interesting character.

Best New Actress : Noh Yoon-seo was good in Crash Course in Romance and in Our Blues.

Technical Award : it's weird how they mix everything together. But Little Women was really beautiful.

Is it good or bad that none of the results surprised me? Hmm... Anyway, congrats to all winners - some may be objectively more deserving than others, but nothing super controversial this time. Wonder what following year will bring us... Personally I'd appreciate a little more intrigue, it's kinda boring when everything is this predictable)))

P.S. A little off-topic, but what would be China's equivalent of Baeksang? I mean, in "let's pretend we care about quality over buzz" category. I'm still very new to that market and don't have full picture yet, only a vague knowledge that their station award shows are the purest kind of popularity contest and infamous for their messy fanwars and being rigged af, just like anywhere else)))

Eunbin getting the daesang came as a pleasant surprise because while i knew she deserved it more than anyone, i didn't think they'd actually give it to her. And to think that it was a unanimous decision of all 7 judges, despite stiff competition from the two most popular shows of baeksang szn, veteran actor Lee Sungmin, and former daesang winner Kim Eunsook.

It's amazing seeing her go from zero votes last year for best actress to all votes this year for daesang. When her name was called, you could tell from her expression she really thought she was going home without an award, yet she got the biggest one. Despite being emotional, she articulated her thoughts pretty well in a speech that reflected her struggles as a child actor and the motivation that came from believing she could eventually get a daesang. YW was a role she initially rejected, yet see where it got her to. Such a humble, talented, eloquent woman. The highlight of the night, really

So how is ‘new’ defined as in the ‘best new actor’? The first time in a drama?

I'm going to be quite honest, I felt a bit iffy about the glory winning best drama . I know it's under the "revenge thriller" category but it was slower paced than most thriller dramas,so it should have some character depth but it somehow lacked that, I don't know if I'm the only one that noticed. But the cinematography and scenic directing were good, the revenge execution was executed alright too,it wasn't too overboard like most revenge dramas but was executed alright though.I'm happy that extraordinary attorney woo(I can't explain how wonderful this drama was to me, from the realistic characters, personalities,to how attorney woo's emotions were relayed ,park eun bin acted so well) ,and also for "my liberation notes"while watching this drama I hoped it would win best screenplay or best drama because the writing and execution was brilliantly and complexly detailed, the characters were so real, the acting was so good. I'm a big fan of detailed acting and slice of life dramas ,so this one was a YES for me. I'm not going to try to and invalidate the credibility of the awards, because every show nominated or every actor nominated put in hard work,being nominated is as good as winning the main award because it shows that the drama or actor is seen as being worthy enough to be awarded in whatsoever honorary award category.

Almost all were the most deserving winners and I am delighted that they were recognized with the award.

The exception is for the Glory to win best drama! It was not bad, but should not have been nominated in the first place. I think there were better nominees to win best actress, but Im Ji-yeon as best supporting actress fully deserved her award.

And I am so happy for the two rookies!

I was like...what The Glory won the Best Drama, over Extraordinary Attorney Woo, Our Blues and My Liberation Notes and then Song Hye Kyo bagged the Best Actress over the Kim Hye Soo, I was speechless

Fortunately for me, Lee Sung Min and Park Eun Bin managed to walk away with their much-deserved awards: a Best Actor and a Daesang.

why do the guys look like waiters this time? too weird

Summary of what I feel about the results :

- Film department (before going to drama section): did not expect Ryu Jun Yeol to win this. In fact, his winning the trophy break the cycle of seasoned Chungmuro actors winning the Best Actors of Film category for years - you know, the likes of Park Hae Il, Ha Jung Woo, Lee Byung Hun ... these guys keep winning one after another .... on the other side, I totally expect Tang Wei to won the Actress category for Decision to Leave (the first non-Korean actress to do so?) - her ooze, or gazes, her sexy seducing menace is on another level entirely in that movie.

- I have less gripe with the winners as opposed to the nominations announcement. Probably because it boils down to just choosing one of the five nominees, just with any awards shows like Oscar, Grammys, or Emmys

- Grand Prize: now, I did not expect this. Honestly I thought SHK will win this one however it goes to PEB instead, which is a HUGE surprise - making her one of the youngest Daesang winner is it?

- Best Drama : no ... should not be The Glory. I prefer EAW here. Lucky for it to win this one, but The Glory had such the right release date & timing that it might be struck heavily with the jury. I do think Our Blues deserves better, too.

- Actor : yeah, Lee Sung-Min all the way. No complaints here.

- Actress: honestly it will be great if PEB win this one as well, but no ... they have to spread the prize, so it went to SHK instead ... not that her acting there is bad, but I do feel PEB, KJW and KHS, out-acted her amongst the nominees ... (I don't think KHS will win again though - she had two Best Actress trophies in her bag already)

- Supporting Actor: actually, in Narco-saints, Hwang Jung-Min gave a more memorable performance as the main villain compared to Jo Woo-Jin - but I think it is rightfully deserved, amongst the nominees.

- Supporting Actress: locked all the way to Lim Ji-Yeon (since *sigh* they seem FORGOT to nominate Uhm Ji-Won)

- Director: it should have been director Kim from Little Women, honestly.

- Screenplay: glad for MLN won this one.

- Technical: I always wonder why they jumble all the different tech categories like this. I mean in Oscar, they took time to separate the categories et. cinematography, score, editing, etc.

- Finally, some thoughts are still lingering with me even long after the noms announcemenet - where are great dramas like Pachinko or Recipe for Farewell?

I don't know how to feel, among these dramas, I have only watched The Glory and Reborn Reach, one I was totally satisfied with, and the other, well, I'm just happy that Lee Seungmin has been acknowledged for his performance.

The prestige of a Baeksang award is important: a winner gets a pay upgrade, more opportunities, better project offers, more CFs, etc.

But like all award shows, there are industry politics, popularity contests, longevity over performance and breakout roles that factor into the final decisions.

Much hate for The Glory in this thread.. I actually expected it to win,as just like Squid Game, it did make the right kind of buzz in SK and internationally. I personally liked it too as there was never a dull moment, which I cant say for MLN and Our Blues ( which I both dropped). If I were a judge though, I would give it to Little Women.

Happy for my girl crush PEB, she deserved this.

While Lim Ji Yeon did good, I would have preferred if the supporting actress was given to Yeom Hye Ran also from The Glory instead. She had much better acted scenes though less screen time than LJY. To me, the younger version of LJY's character (Shin Ye-eun) was more menacing and more convincing as a villain (those eyes still give me the chills).

Anyway, congratulations to all the winners.

Congratulations to all who won! but for me that loves kdrama actors/actresses, everyone is a winner <3 <3 <3

The Glory is the least deserving of the award. Imo. I was disappointed by Little Women, but even that had a better message. Son Hye-kye had a good performance though. And the supporting actress as well. I didn't watch her drama, but I just know Kim Hye-soo would act circles around the most of nominees.

Anyway YAY for our favourite actor Park Eun-bin!! ❤️💐

Congrats to everyone! Tough competition this past year. It's a surprise to realize that when usually at the end of the year, it doesn't feel like an awesome year. I'm always interested in seeing the "best new actor/actresses" awards and nominees. I hope to see these rookie actors grow and rise up to bigger roles.

Park Eun-bin deserved to win the Daesang.

I was also glad to see that Roh Yoon-seo won Best New Actress- she was not only good in CRASH COURSE IN ROMANCE but also fabulous in OUR BLUES. She has a real presence on the screen.

I am thrilled for Park Eun Bin!! Well deserved.
I was also impressed with Roh Yoon Seo.