Winners of the SBS, MBC, and KBS 2023 Drama Awards

48 January 2, 2024January 5, 2024

Winners of the SBS, MBC, and KBS 2023 Drama Awards

by missvictrix

Our famed “big three” networks ended 2023 as customary with their individual awards shows, where they congratulate themselves – and their stars — on a job well done. Because after a long year of drama production, nothing says congratulations like a pat on your own back. (But we love it.)

Below is a quick summary of the winners.

SBS 2023 DRAMA AWARDS WINNERS

SBS held their 2023 Drama Awards on December 29, 2023, presenting awards – and then more awards — for the stars of their dramas this year. Though it was met with some ruffled netizen feathers with its split Daesang and general “awards for everyone!” vibe, there was also a subtle tribute to the tragic passing of Lee Sun-kyun. For all the fluff factor of these awards, there is also some nice attention given to fabulous actors like Seo Jung-yeon and Kim Won-hae, who deserve the spotlight but instead steal the scene in supporting roles.

Enjoy the full photo gallery here.

Grand Prize (Daesang)
Lee Je-hoon – Taxi Driver 2
Kim Tae-ri – Revenant

Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries Genre/Action Drama
Park Sung-woong – The Killing Vote

Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries Genre/Action Drama
Moon Chae-won – Payback

Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries Romance/Comedy Drama
Song Kang – My Demon

Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries Romance/Comedy Drama
Kim Yoo-jung – My Demon

Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Seasonal Drama
Ahn Hyo-seop – Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim 3

Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Seasonal Drama
Lee Sung-kyung – Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim 3

Excellence Award, Actor in a Seasonal Drama
Shin Jae-ha – Taxi Driver 2

Excellence Award, Actress in a Seasonal Drama
Pyo Ye-jin – Taxi Driver 2

Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries Genre/Action Drama
Lee Joon – 7 Escape
Hong Kyung – Revenant

Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries Genre/Action Drama
Lee Yubi – 7 Escape

Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries Romance/Comedy Drama
Ryeoun – The Secret Romantic Guesthouse

Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries Romance/Comedy Drama
Shin Ye-eun – The Secret Romantic Guesthouse

Best Supporting Performance in a Miniseries Genre/Action Drama
Kim Won-hae – Revenant

Netizen’s Best SBS Drama of 2023
Taxi Driver 2

Best Supporting Actor in a Seasonal Drama
Bae Yoo-ram – Taxi Driver 2
Jang Hyuk-jin – Taxi Driver 2

Best Supporting Actress in a Seasonal Drama
Sohn Ji-yoon – The First Responders 2

Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries Romance/Comedy Drama
Jung Soon-won – My Demon and Trolley

Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries Romance/Comedy Drama
Seo Jung-yeon – My Demon and Trolley

Best Couple Award
Song Kang and Kim Yoo-jung – My Demon

Scene Stealer Award
Go Sang-ho – Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim 3 and Taxi Driver 2
Byun Jung-hee – Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim 3 and Taxi Driver 2

Best New Actor
Kim Do-hoon – 7 Escape
Kang Yoo-seok – Payback
Lee Shin-young – Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim 3
Lee Hong-nae – Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim 3

Best New Actress
Kwon Ah-reum – The Killing Vote
Yang Hye-ji – Revenant
Jung Soo-bin – Trolley

Best Young Actor
Choi Hyun-jin – The Killing Vote
Han Ji-ahn – Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim 3

Best Young Actress
Park So-yi – Revenant
Ahn Chae-heum – Taxi Driver 2

Best Supporting Team
Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim 3

Best Performance
Jin Seon-gyu – Revenant

MBC 2023 DRAMA AWARDS WINNERS

The MBC Drama Awards for 2023 were held on December 30, 2023, and My Dearest took home the cake — and most of the awards — with the Daesang going to Namgoong Min, and the cast, couple, and drama as a whole also winning a ton. The Story of Park’s Marriage Contract also got some wins. But really, it’s Cha Chung-hwa’s award that makes me want to applaud here. You go girl!

Enjoy the full photo gallery here.

Grand Prize (Daesang)
Namgoong Min – My Dearest

Drama of the Year
My Dearest

Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries
Woo Do-hwan – Joseon Attorney

Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries
Ahn Eun-jin – My Dearest
Lee Se-young – The Story of Park’s Marriage Contract

Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries
Bae In-hyuk – The Story of Park’s Marriage Contract

Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries
Park Kyu-young – A Good Day to Be a Dog

Best Supporting Actor
Choi Young-woo – My Dearest

Best Supporting Actress
Cha Chung-hwa – Kokdu: Season of Deity

Best New Actor
Kim Mu-joon – My Dearest
Kim Yoon-woo – My Dearest

Best New Actress
Joo Hyun-young – The Story of Park’s Marriage Contract
Park Jung-yeon – My Dearest

Best Couple Award
Namgoong Min and Ahn Eun-jin – My Dearest

Best Character Award
Kim Jong-tae – My Dearest

KBS 2023 DRAMA AWARDS WINNERS

KBS held their year-end award ceremony on December 31, 2023. It comes as no surprise that Choi Su-jong grabbed the Daesang over on KBS, and The Goryeo-Khitan War won a lot of awards — but so did The Matchmakers (yay!) and the cast of Oasis. As for the couple and popularity awards here, there seems to be a general throwing of awards like confetti, but hey — nothing wrong with indiscriminate celebrating your top talent and OTPs.

Enjoy the full photo gallery here.

Grand Prize (Daesang)
Choi Su-jong – The Goryeo-Khitan War

Top Excellence Award, Actor
Kim Dong-joon – The Goryeo-Khitan War
Rowoon – The Matchmakers

Top Excellence Award, Actress
Uee – Live Your Own Life

Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries
Jang Dong-yoon – Oasis

Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries
Jo Yi-hyun – The Matchmakers
Seol In-ah – Oasis

Excellence Award, Actor in a Serial Drama
Ha Joon – Live Your Own Life
Ji Seung-hyun – The Goryeo-Khitan War

Excellence Award, Actress in a Serial Drama
Baek Jin-hee – The Real Has Come!

Best Supporting Actor
Jo Han-chul – The Matchmakers
Kim Myung-soo – Oasis
Lee Won-jong – The Goryeo-Khitan War

Best Supporting Actress
Kang Kyung-hun – Oasis

Best New Actor
Lee Won-jung – My Perfect Stranger
Choo Young-woo – Oasis

Best New Actress
Seo Ji-hye – My Perfect Stranger

Popularity Award, Actor
Ahn Jae-hyun – The Real Has Come!
Ji Seung-hyun – The Goryeo-Khitan War
Lee Sang-yub – My Lovely Boxer
Rowoon – The Matchmakers

Popularity Award, Actress
Jo Yi-hyun – The Matchmakers
Seol In-ah – Oasis
Uee – Live Your Own Life

Best Couple Award
Ahn Jae-hyun and Baek Jin-hee – The Real Has Come!
Ha Joon and Uee – Live Your Own Life
Jang Dong-yoon and Seol In-ah – Oasis
Choi Soo-jong and Kim Dong-joon – The Goryeo-Khitan War
Rowoon and Jo Yi-hyun – The Matchmakers

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1 ladykrueger

January 2, 2024 at 9:10 AM

The absolute highlight of all of this is Lee Se-young referring to Bae In-hyuk as a "new man she married" after Junho. I love her.

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2 jerrykuvira

January 2, 2024 at 9:32 AM

Cha Chung-hwa's win at the MBC awards earned a delightful shriek from me. I know the cast of My Dearest did a lot to deserve thier win... I just had to take a moment and rejoice with Cha Chung-hwa. It was long overdue.

KBS's Daesang winner was someone i wasn't expecting but i was not surprised either. And then there is Ji Seung-hyun's double win. Gosh! KBS and MBC did better this year.

I can't say for SBS though. I'm laughing at most of the winners, especially when I saw the actors and actresses they went against.

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3 🌸 Seeker 🌸

January 2, 2024 at 9:40 AM

The best part about award shows is seeing our favorite actors dressed to the nines, answering inane questions or playing random games on the red carpet. The fact that most attendees get to take an award as a return gift is a bonus.

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Kurama

January 2, 2024 at 9:47 AM

Personally, my favourite part, it's when the show is over and fans are filming the actors interacting like normal people, happy to see each other.

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🌸 Seeker 🌸

January 2, 2024 at 10:44 AM

That is heartwarming indeed. Even during the broadcast when they are sitting and whispering together it's cute.

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Britney

January 2, 2024 at 1:15 PM

What's a return gift?

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🌸 Seeker 🌸

January 2, 2024 at 7:21 PM

Party favors or gift given to guests who attend a event.

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4 Kurama

January 2, 2024 at 9:51 AM

Channels should really open their awards to the production crew too. The PD, writer, the persons responsible for : costume/styling, sets, lights, etc.

I'm surprised they don't choose an OST too.

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🌸 Seeker 🌸

January 2, 2024 at 10:45 AM

Technical awards are very important. After all they are the backbone of any production.

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Britney

January 2, 2024 at 12:58 PM

Don't producers have their own award shows?

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Kurama

January 2, 2024 at 1:21 PM

There are different awards for : Baeksang Arts Awards, Seoul International Drama Awards, Korea Drama Awards, Grimae Awards and APAN Star Awards.

Blue Dragon Series Awards only gave awards to actors or entertainers.

But it's for all released Kdramas, there are the ones from the streaming platforms too.

Usually, it's the ones with high ratings or a lot of buzz that won.

So it's why it would be nice that small productions could be recognized too.

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5 Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️

January 2, 2024 at 10:09 AM

Is it me or does it seem like they just choose two or three dramas and then just give them all the rewards? So glad that The Matchmakers king was recognised.

How are the weekenders even an option? If that’s the case they should have a separate category and bring in dailies as well because the current daily seems to be getting a lot more praise than either of the weekenders ever did.

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john

January 2, 2024 at 10:16 AM

The Real Has Come ? 🤔

That is a lot of leeway there, a whole lot of leeway.

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DancingEmma

January 2, 2024 at 4:30 PM

@john Pretty much. And, how odd that a number of the winning dramas are not even concluded as yet. I suppose given the parochial nature of such awards, it doesn’t really matter if they started well but jumped the shark at some point after the announcement of the winners.

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🌸 Seeker 🌸

January 2, 2024 at 10:47 AM

Each channel gives awards to their dramas. That's just the way it rolls. 🤷‍♀️

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john

January 2, 2024 at 11:14 AM

A participation trophy 🏆 Aigoo. 😂

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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️

January 2, 2024 at 11:59 AM

That is exactly right🤣.

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Kurama

January 2, 2024 at 12:04 PM

The ratings do a lot too.

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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️

January 2, 2024 at 12:00 PM

Yes but did they only make and show 3 dramas in 12 months?

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6 Nessa (Bebe) 🌹

January 2, 2024 at 10:34 AM

I have to say, I am really loving and appreciating the monochromatic tone of colours in everyone’s outfits this year for the awards— more so the drama awards, since there are still some who wore colour at the entertainment (variety) awards— and it warms my heart just how much the industry has united together in an unwritten and unspoken way but that everyone knows why. In years previous, there may have been some “complaints” about how plain and monochromatic the outfits are, but I find it to be such a beautiful thing for this year 🖤🩶🤍

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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️

January 2, 2024 at 12:02 PM

I am surprised anyone felt able to turn up and smile for the cameras.

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Nessa (Bebe) 🌹

January 2, 2024 at 1:09 PM

And that’s to be expected. Some of the pics of the red carpets for the year-end awards, it looked to me liked some of them were on the verge of tears trying to smile for the cameras

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🌸 Seeker 🌸

January 2, 2024 at 1:10 PM

The show must go on ... these are all professionals who grind for the sake of their art every single day they show up to work. It was also a way to honor.

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Hanamana

January 2, 2024 at 2:03 PM

I loved that Park Sung woong showed his sadness while receiving award. There were few who did.

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7 CasualDramaFan

January 2, 2024 at 10:43 AM

Has SBS decided on category to give award for every drama it has aired?
What does it mean by Best character award and best couple award to Real has come - That's quite the reach...

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DancingEmma

January 2, 2024 at 4:32 PM

An effigy would have been more appropriate. I’m still trying to scrub it from my memory.

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8 🌸 Seeker 🌸

January 2, 2024 at 10:52 AM

Anyone who has seen The Real Has Come or any part thereof featuring the OTP ... WAE ... just wae 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

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Kathryn51

January 2, 2024 at 3:48 PM

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

Critics were not kind to Ahn Jae Hyun's performance and Bak jin hee was lifeless in the last 1/3 of the drama. And yet each gets some sort of "best" award?

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9 jillian

January 2, 2024 at 11:26 AM

SBS is giving away the awards like its candy. They have a lot of categories with multiple winners. KBS is another offender.

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🌸 Seeker 🌸

January 2, 2024 at 11:47 AM

Here is a 🍭 for you for attending the show. Now please smile for the camera. 😃 📷

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jillian

January 2, 2024 at 4:07 PM

Its like a participation awards show and not a real awards for the best nominee if they give it away like that 🤣

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10 tabong is ironing the crosswalk

January 2, 2024 at 11:54 AM

I'm kinda shocked uri Trolley leads didn't won anything.

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panshel

January 2, 2024 at 3:56 PM

It's even more shocking who they lost against.

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jerrykuvira

January 4, 2024 at 8:20 AM

This is very true.

I saw the APAN award winners and when you note the competitors in each category, you know whoever wins won it.

Even if SBS is an internal award, there were better competitors to have won the award. And most definitely, they shouldn't have split the wins.

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11 Britney

January 2, 2024 at 1:13 PM

When I saw the SBS winners, I was so confused by how many categories they had for best actor and actress. Is this a new thing? Breaking down the categories as "seasonal", "romantic/comedy", "thriller/action"?

When I saw the KBS winners, I was like "damn, was their no other shows that aired aside from these shows? How out of 7 shows (listed), 6 won most of the awards? How was one of those 6 The Matchmakers?!" Was that show really *that* good? I also thought so all couples *don't* win best couple because the leads of Heartbeat didn't win (then again I saw there were folks who thought they didn't have chemistry and the female lead didn't do well as a lead, especially since it was her first time as a lead)

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Kurama

January 2, 2024 at 1:52 PM

KBS hah in 2023 6 daily shows, 7 "normal" ones + one with 32 episodes, 3 week-enders, 8 episodes for special drama.

The daily shows are not really rewarded. They don't have drama on Wednesday-Thursday. The week-enders struggled, they don't hit the 40% like before. So the choices were mainly between the Brain Works, Oasis, My Perfect Stranger, Heartbeat, My Lovely Boxer, The Matchmakers and Goryeo-Khitan War.

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OAsia

January 3, 2024 at 1:13 AM

" Heartbeat didn't win (then again I saw there were folks who thought they didn't have chemistry and the female lead didn't do well as a lead, especially since it was her first time as a lead)"
She previously played the female lead in two seasons of the OTT drama "Juvenile Delinquency" ("Hope or Dope").

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12 Hanamana

January 2, 2024 at 2:12 PM

It was so nice that on KBS some veteran actors finally won an award and I loved that they were happy

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13 Gikata

January 2, 2024 at 3:20 PM

Happy for CCH and REVENANT (tho sad that OJS and Shim Dalgi didn't get anything) and MY DEAREST cast. Otherwise... huh. I did not watch many of these dramas, but I know these actors well enough to raise an eyebrow at some of them winning *glances over comments* Seems like I'm not being cynical for nothing...

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kiara

January 2, 2024 at 3:51 PM

Channel awards are mostly appreciation awards. Take it with a bag of salt.

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Gikata

January 2, 2024 at 5:19 PM

Oh, I know that very well. Still unsure where some of those "appreciations" even come from...

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🌸 Seeker 🌸

January 2, 2024 at 8:01 PM

The channel ... for acting in their shows. 😅

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14 panshel

January 2, 2024 at 3:42 PM

I don't like split Daesang either, but I think the ruffled feathers were over Top Excellence Award winners.

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Gikata

January 2, 2024 at 5:31 PM

Had to look it up. Holy cow!

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15 Britney

January 2, 2024 at 6:05 PM

If y'all think these awards are "participation/appreciation" trophies, then which awards do y'all think reward the quality of the actors' work?

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Kurama

January 3, 2024 at 1:25 AM

None of them because it's very subjective.

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jerrykuvira

January 4, 2024 at 9:12 AM

Sometimes the participation/appreciation trophies do not do enough justice. Sometimes they do. I know I've not been pleased with MBC awards for 2021&2022, but they did better this year.

Look out for Baeksang, APAN, Grimace, Seoul Awards. These ones is a stiff competition between 7 - 10 production houses. Besides the famous 3, we have TV Chosun, jTBC, TVING, and co.

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16 OldLawyer

January 3, 2024 at 7:53 PM

THE REAL HAS COME received awards? Are they nuts?

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